Will the Real Mrs. Atkinson Please Stand Up?

I have long thought that I have multiple personalities. Teaching five different courses sometimes requires five very different teachers, and sometimes I do things and do not remember that I have done them; other times I just forget to do things. The former was the case with my Voicethread. When I tried to create an account, Voicethread told me that my email account was already in use. I thought, "Wow, that was easy!" But then I got nervous because I couldn't remember when I created a Voicethread account, and that was kind of scary. (I'm thinking I did this the day we met with Sara Kadjer, but I'm not sure.)

So I logged in to my previously created Voicethread account, and you can imagine my surprise when I learned not only had I already created a Voicethread account, but I had also uploaded a picture. Then, I got really scared because I HAVE NO MEMORY OF DOING THIS!!

Once I got over the initial shock that one of my many personalities had taken control of my Voicethread without my knowledge, I watched a quick Voicethread tutorial. It was quick and easy. See below.



After watching this video, I was able to participate in our class conversation on Troy Hicks' book, The Digital Writing Workshop.

I also went to youtube to look for other videos on Voicethread, and there are TONS of great video tutorials for Voicethread. I found one at school today, but I got sidetracked and clicked off of the page. I tried to find it again, but I couldn't get back to it. But here is another good tutorial if you like a longer than one minute tutorial to get you started.



And evidentally, it's really easy to create your own Voicethread posts. I was browsing around in Voicethread this afternoon and discovered that I had also created my own Voicethread with pictures from the snow we had earlier this year.



I'm still not sure which Mrs. Atkinson did all of this, but I'm glad she did. If it was easy enough for her, I'm sure it's easy enough for anyone else. I'm excited about trying it in the classroom. Hope those of you in the blog world have as much success as one of the Mrs. Atkinson's did. Now, will the real Mrs. Atkinson please stand up?