Exasperating VoiceThread

Well perhaps I shouldn’t have left VoiceThread until the end of my blogging adventure but every time I looked at the site it appeared to be a little more complicated than other sites I had been playing with. For that reason, coupled with the fact that I couldn’t think of an interesting idea, I kept putting off making a VoiceThread.  With a little less then a week left the pressure was on and I knew crunch time had come (a little pressure is always good for motivation!).  Inspired by a colleagues’ VoiceThread theme I decided to do a Welcome to our School VoiceThread for incoming grade sevens. Simple enough, right? That is what I thought until I sat down last night…

I had taken pictures throughout the school day of various sights around the school.  At home I uploaded the pictures to my computer and set about logging into VoiceThread.  Once on the VoiceThread site I selected Create  and then Upload which provided me with the following options: My Computer, Media Sources, URL and My Webcam. I selected My Computer to upload the pictures and figured I was on a role and would be complete by supper time! Here though is where my troubles began; I made the mistake of selecting 14 pictures to be uploaded.  The site reassured me that this process would only be 7 -9 minutes.  How wrong they were.  Hours later I had managed to upload pictures one at a time, add a title to each frame, and add a comment to the first frame.  Very frustrated and a quite tired I went to bed with the hopes that a new day would bring more head way with this Web tool.