Challenges and Rewards in Distance Education

Below is our VoiceThread presentation on the Challenges and Rewards associated with Distance Education:

How did our group collaborate in the making of the presentation?

Our group utilized email as the primary communication tool.  Shawn created the PowerPoint template for us to use, so we had a standard format from the beginning.  We split the question into three parts, and each were assigned a part: 

           1. The Challenges and Rewards for Institutions

           2. The Challenges and Rewards for Teachers 

           3. The Challenges and Rewards for Students

We then researched our area and created the corresponding PowerPoint slides.  Once all of the slides were complete I uploaded them to VoiceThread.  We were then each tasked with creating the comments for our own slides.

Your experiences using VoiceThread:

VoiceThread was very user friendly.  The only hiccup we encountered was once I uploaded the slides to VoiceThread.  I shared the link with Shawn and June and I was able to comment, but I did not realize that even though they could see the presentation they were not able to comment.  This was quickly remedied once Shawn told me he was not able to comment by checking the presentation's settings.  After that, it was very easy to create, edit, and save comments.

A reflection of how you think VoiceThread could be used in your presentation/professional life:

VoiceThread could be utilized in many different ways.  We could have our medical dosimetry students collaborate and create a VoiceThread presentation in their Cross Sectional Anatomy course, or really any course, and have their classmates comment.  An instructor could also create a presentation and pose questions for the students to answer.  The students would then be required to comment and respond to questions.  The possibilities are endless.