Voicethread

http://voicethread.com

=What is it?= A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents and video and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

=How could it be used in the classroom?= You can upload photos, pictures for online discussion. People can leave comments in various ways as above. Check out Voicethreads for Education. Try using as an evaluation tool, pose a question, get people to respond, peer feedback etc.

Teachers can create an account and have unlimited identities so for example you can have your whole class, each child with their own avatar, able to respond to a photo, piece of artwork, whatever.