Affordance Of Educational Technology

Web 2.0 Technology - VoiceThread

The affordances of Web 2.o technology are: 1) connectivity and social rapport, 2) collaborative information discovery and sharing, 3) content creation and 4) knowledge and information aggregation and content knowledge. Many of these affordances are made possible with the use of the VoiceThread tool. The students are able to give a presentation (video or still image) and the other students or teachers can comment on the presentation. This can also be used as a collaborative tool. Also, the presenter is able to focus on main pieces of information by underlining it with the writing tool or zooming in on the important information. Another thing that the article discusses is using the DiAl-e framework to enhance these affordances. There are many specific examples on how to use this framework to do so within this article. I feel that if a teacher was going to use the VoiceThread tool in their classroom that they should definitely read this article before they do. It was very informative and it can be very beneficial to their lessons.