What?
VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world. See http://voicethread.com/ for more details.

When?
March 25th from 11:00am — 12:00pm

Where?
Bass Library room L01 (lower level of the Bass Library)

Who?
Robin Ladouceur
Foreign Language Research Specialist, from the Center for Language Study will offer a quick tour of VoiceThread, show some official VoiceThread tutorials, and explain the process of uploading and commenting on images.

Michael Farina
Lector in the Department of Italian, will then demonstrate how he uses VoiceThread in his classes at Yale.

Many academic digital collection projects are focused on special collections and college archives. Such projects seek to bring collections “out of the basement” and enable greater access to valuable and specialized research materials. However, undergraduate students and faculty often have very different needs and expectations of these digital materials than experienced researchers or the general public.