Last week, I had the chance to collaborate with Señora Marrecau and her Spanish students as they used VoiceThread to describe one person in their family or to describe themselves.
Señora created one series of VoiceThread slides per class and posted the link to the slides on her Google Classroom page. Señora wrote a comment on each slide that said which student should post on that slide. For homework on the first night of the project, each student made an audio recording responding to the three prompts on the slide.
Listen to one of the student's recordings here.
The next day in class, Señora paired up the students and had them listen to each others' recordings. Each student then wrote a transcription of what their partner had said in a comment box on VoiceThread. In addition, students then shared ideas with each other about ways to improve their pronunciation, clarity, and fluency.
Since the class is an immersion class, this use of technology slowed down the pace of speaking and translating so that each student had the chance to speak in the target language, listen to her own speech, make corrections as necessary, and listen to others' speech with the purpose of understanding.
