Week 11 Article Reflection

   The article titled, "Evaluating pedagogical affordances of media sharing Web 2.0 technologies: A case study," by Kevin Burden and Simon Atkinson takes an interesting in depth look at the web tool known as VoiceThread, and shares a ton of useful information.  Burden and Atkinson look through and evaluate VoiceThread to show its potential uses for both teachers and students and to show the pedagogical affordances they enable.  Overall i was intrigues by this article because i have indeed used VoiceThread previously for a different grad class and other than using it for a few assignments i never really read about or looked into case studies on the tool.  The authors of this article did a great job of showing how this tool can be used as a Web 2.0 tool to help teachers or tutors to direct stimulating and engaging lessons with students via VoiceThread and the Internet.  Through reading the short article i learned about many uses of VoiceThread that i really never knew existed.  I learned that you can add outside audio and video to the thread along with the audio and video you yourself record using a webcam.  I also learned about some of the methodology and affordances that VoiceThread features may have.  It is always good to take a look at a breakdown of all of these potential uses and practices so as a teacher you know that you a truly helping your students learn and succeed through using fun and technological applications.  Overall i enjoyed this article and i think it gave me great insight into this wonderful tool which is VoiceThread.  I look forward to using it more in the future and trying to use is to its potential limits so as to create meaningful and worthwhile VoiceThread's for my students and I to use.