VoiceThread was launched in March 2007, was touted as a “place to capture voices.” The description on this early version offered the following possibilities for uses:

• Create a VoiceThread and collect the stories behind your pictures
• Turn yearbooks, scrapbooks, or photo-albums into VoiceThreads
• Capture the voices of an entire group, on a single page
• Put your VoiceThread on any blog or website

A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies.

Voicethread is a great tool for collaborative projects since it join picture and voice in slideshares, it is like an interactive media album. Students can leave comments using voice, text or video if they have a webcam, therefore it promotes asynchronous discusion about the topic which is being discussed. Besides, teachers can decide if they want to publish their Voicethreads presentations or keep them private.