8 Random Facts Meme - Produced with Style

I know that there have been some creative responses to the recent 'attack of the memes' around the world I would like to draw attention to 2 from the UK.
An example from Scotland by David Noble who some may know better as 'Booruch' , David responded to being tagged by producing a creative Voicethread.



The other example is from the opposite end of the UK from Joe Dale on the Isle of Wight in England. Joe wanted to produce a thoughtful piece which broke from the norm and posted his meme here on blip.tv ( for those with a Mac I would warn you that this is a .wmv file and you will need a plug-in to play it)

Update
** Check out Adam Sutcliffe's blog post on Digital Students vs Analogue Schools - food for thought **

Voicethread Experiment

Today I test out the creativity of the blogosphere in a collaborative poetry writing exercise - if you find yourself with a few free minutes today why not add your thoughts on the image below in the form of a Haiku. All Haiku's will be moderated and won't appear immediately - go on have a go ( in whatever language you wish - I am looking forward to a range of accents and languages in order to show the colour of the world)



On the issue of globalising the new media experience, the UK based MediaSnackers, who travel the world giving kids a chance to let their voices be heard, were involved earlier this year with the 5th World Summit on Media for Children held in South Africa, watch their vodcast diary to see how they used their understanding and experience in training young people to be switched on Digital Journalists to give initial training to groups of youngsters who will go back and show their friends other students in Africa how to blog and make video presentations - Well done to DK and the MediaSnackers :)

Part 1 - A Video Diary ( the perils and problems of operating in a different country)

Part 2 A Video Diary ( The Solution and Resolution)

Using Voicethread with Comment Moderation

I took a walk down from my house yesterday afternoon and shot this Voicethread, which I have set up to see how easy it is to shoot, voice over and embed into the blog.

Embedding Voicethread into your Blog

I was playing around with Voicethread today following the Edinburgh Coffee Morning meeting which became a Voicethread - the guys at Voicethread have come up with the code which should enable Threads to be embedded in blogs which is cool.
You can embed your own Voicethread from the To Go box of your own Thread, however the code is needed to embed a public Thread, which is the second slide below. ( plus in the My Box on the right side bar should have the Voicethread Embed Code)



Thank You Voicethread you have a powerful tool here. Just one question from a teacher thinking about using this in a classroom, is there any form of moderation of Threads? I couldn't find a way to do this..... anybody know How To ??

The Blogosphere replies :

" Hi, thanks for the review. Yes Voicethread has comment moderation, here's a quick tutorial, http://voicethread.com/view.php?b=718
It's allows you to really curate the commentary into the best conversation possible.
Thanks again,
Steve
www.voicethread.com"
Thanks also to John Pearce for his comment on the same issue :)

Voicethread for Vodcasting

Just take a look at this excellent use of Voicethread by the inimitable Mr John Johnstone from Sandaig Primary in Scotland of his Walk along the Canal it bowled me over, what fantastic use is being made of these new technologies - thank you very much John.