VoiceThread as an Assessment Tool

Over the past 18 months, I have been collaborating with two of our history teachers, Frank Dachille and Tim Curren, with their project to revamp our 9th and 10th History courses. This year, rather than creating a written assessment  culminating the 9th grade curriculum, Frank wanted to create an assessment where student recorded their response to one of thirteen essential questions. During our brainstorming, I showed him VoiceThread, which I believed would meet 85% of his original goals. After playing with an example project, Frank enthusiastically embraced VoiceThread to use for his assessment. For this, students had to create their […]