Youth+Voices

**Resources: **  Youth Voices Website

**Strengths: ** - Social network where students and teachers work together to create student-to-student conversations and collaborations. - Controlled by the teacher. - You can use your cell phone to post audio. - You can also create, revise, and polish three types of Discussions: audio podcasts, text with embedded media, and discussions that begin with video and voice threads. - You can browse by topics. - You can choose a new discusion, a current discussion or a popular discussion. - You can find posts by members of your school or community groups. - Teachers can create group with the students and make it private. - Teachers can fill in a form at Userplus to add multiple users and to assign roles to these users. They might also decide to have students register themselves.

**Weaknesses: ** - Not appropriate for the lower grades because it involves a lot of reading and writing.

**Opportunities: ** - Save on paper use. - Great opportunity for journal writing. - Students who are timid to participate in class discussions will feel more confortable to participate in on-line discussions (no face-to- face discussions).

**Threats: ** **Ideas for the Classroom: ** - Create a reading froup to interact among students as they read a story or novel. Teacher and/or students an post questions.. - Teacher writes a prompt for students to extend on.