LibGuides: Using VoiceThread @ WSU: VoiceThread

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About VoiceThread, Including How to Use It

***WSU has recently licensed an online service called VoiceThread - a “creating, commenting, and sharing system” that allows a user to upload almost any kind of file (videos, documents, audio , etc). Once uploaded, the item is available for asynchronous comments and conversations (publicly or privately) through a number of multimodal ways. This is a great way to add an element of interactivity to videos (including still images), photographs, tutorials, etc. and provides an option for for assessment.

Note: WSU faculty who would like to create Groups: email aoi.li@wsu.edu and request a pro account so you can create them.

What Is VoiceThread?
A series of short videos: What is VoiceThread; Interactive Video Commenting; VT in a MOOC; Commenting; Creating; Sharing; Annotating (aka "Doodling"); Comment Moderation.
Using VoiceThread (a Weekly Tip from WSU Academic Outreach & Innovation)
"VoiceThread is a web-based tool for having asynchronous conversations around media such as images, presentations, videos, documents and lectures. Students and instructors can upload their media files then add their comments using voice, video, and text. VoiceThread allows users to share what they have created and engage with others in a dynamic discussion. It can be used for a variety of activities including discussion boards, speaking practice, presentations, portfolio building, office hours, or assessment."
VoiceThread: Increasing Social Presence and Collaboration (WSU Academic Outreach & Innovatin)
"VoiceThread is a web-based tool that is useful for having asynchronous audio and video conversations around media such as images, presentations, videos, and documents. VoiceThread can help bring social presence to your online course. All WSU students, faculty, and staff have VoiceThread accounts."
VoiceThread Features: Communicate, Collaborate and Connect
Features include Mobiloe, LMS integration (including Canvas and BlackBoard), Accessibility, Analytics, and Security.
How-To for Students - Using VoiceThread in Learning Management Systems (including BlackBoard and Canvas)
Includes how to use it (watch, comment, create), how to submit a VT assignment in each LMS, and more. Detailed instructions!
Creating a Threaded Reply in VoiceThread (KCTCS Online)
1.58 minutes
VoiceThread Online Workshops
From VoiceThread, Upcoming workshops are spotlighted on this page, but if you look at the workshop categories on the right, you can click on a workshop title and view the archived presentation.
VoiceThread YouTube Channel
VoiceThread How-Tos for the Web Version
Goes through various topics including commenting, identities, exports, etc.
VoiceThread How-Tos for Mobile apps
Works on Android, IOS, and iPadOS.
VoiceThread Digital Library
"The Digital Library is a database of articles about successful VoiceThread projects. Our hope is to create a resource that offers guidance and inspiration for people undertaking new projects."
VoiceThread Blog
Recent posts include "Solving a Pandemic Problem - Hosting a Virtual Poster Session with VoiceThread," "Using VoiceThread for Online Portfolios," and more.
VoiceThread Research
Via VoiceThread, a list of studies about the use of VoiceThread.

Spring 2023 Update: New/Newish Helpful WSU Libraries Resources and Services

JSTOR - we have access to ALL of JSTOR's journal content (including the Security Studies module) through the end of June 2023.

iPOLL (Roper Center)
Not available after 3/31/2023
iPOLL is a public opinion/polling database of 500,000+ questions and answers on a wide range of topics collected by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. The database also provides access to downloadable datasets for statistical analysis (free account required). Some international coverage. Data covers 1935-present
HeinOnline / Hein Online
Database of legal and government resources, including laws, regulations, some trials and court reports, treaties, monographs, and a variety of other materials covering United States and foreign law. Coverage includes private and public international law, intellectual property and legal history. Includes full text image-based searchable database of legal periodicals. Database coverage for each periodical is from the beginning issue to the most current allowed under contract. New and updated material added frequently.
Statista
Statista provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.
PolicyMap
Now permanent!!! as of January 2022
An online (no software installation needed) U.S. national data and mapping tool and analytics platform with multidisciplinary applications for college students and faculty. Undergraduate and graduate schools use us in their curriculum and research related to social sciences, urban studies, real estate and housing analysis, community and economic development, public administration, public health, policy and political science, education, business, economics, statistics, and geography, among others. Users can leverage thousands of U.S. data indicators in PolicyMap to perform demographic and socioeconomic analysis, from a neighborhood census block group in many cases, up to a national level, as well as create custom regions, for their research and studies.
Look for Blog Posts, Customer Stories, and sample Maps, Tables, and Reports.
SAGE Research Methods
Designed to guide users to the content they need to learn a little or a lot about their method, SAGE Research Methods includes more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. The Methods Map can help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research.

The Proxy Bookmarklet and LibKey Nomad
Note: The Proxy Bookmarklet will be going away due to the slow migration over the Spring, 2023 term to an authentication method called Open Athens (more info)
Have you ever found something on the Web that you knew was available through the Libraries, but it was too much of a pain to log into the Libraries site and find it? Now we have a bookmarklet that you can add to your browser button bar so that you can log in via the Libraries and get immediate access (most of the time…) find out more about our new proxy bookmarklet. And it works with tablets too...
Note: after you log in, if you don't get access, just click the proxy bookmarklet again and you will (if your browser is idle for too long you may need to log in again). Also provides information on newish library service LibKey Nomad which can also be used to provide instant access to PDFs available though the WSU Libraries.
The Dimensions Lab
Big Monitors. Cool software. Large (but not really large) scanner. 3D Photogrammetry. Macs. 3-D printer. And more. #DigitalMaking
The Libraries’ Dimensions Lab is equipped to provide computing resources and tools for computer-based projects in the fields of media, art, music, engineering, computer science, and physics. The lab is located on the first floor of the Holland Library on the WSU Pullman campus, right off the main elevators between Holland and Terrell.
Added in fall 2021: a small recording studio, the Audio Lab.
WSU Libraries Citation Style Quick Guides (includes APA 7th)
"These quick reference guides are designed to provide easy access to common formatting and stylistic requirements for each citation style."
APA Style (7th Ed.) Handouts and Guides (free)
"The following are instructional aids for the seventh edition Publication Manual, Concise Guide to APA Style, and Mastering APA Style Student Workbook. They can be used in homes, classrooms, libraries, or anywhere you are learning or teaching APA Style."
APA: The Basics of Seventh Edition APA Style (free)
Free tutorial
Just in case, APA Sixth Edition Resources
APA: Style and Grammar Guidelines (7th edition; free)
Just in case, APA Sixth Edition Resources
Citation Linker
Use this link when you have a citation and want to get to the book or article. It will link to the item you want. If it is not available at the WSU Libraries, it will generate an automatic Interlibrary Loan form so you can easily request it.