Change is always a scary venture but it can also provide for exciting times. Proper management of change is a necessity to facilitate a lasting proposition. Review of the VoiceThread community and literature proved this tool to have a grassroots implementation or as Rogers (2003) would suggest these people were the "innovators" as they were inventing the use of such a tool in an educational environment. With 3 years of suggested uses we move to the "early adopters" phase. People now do not need to invent uses for VoiceThread but can peruse the communities or VoiceThread itself for learning activities. People that choose to use VoiceThread are using it to fill a need or gap in the current material or tools available.

One literary reports suggest use of the "Digital Artefacts for Learner Engagement" (DiAL-e) framework "to chart the affordances and uses" of VoiceThread (Burden & Atkinson, 2008, para. 1). While the DiAL-e framework looks at what VoiceThread can provide for a match between learning design and pedagogical affordances, another tool proposed is Bates and Poole (2005) SECTIONS framework that is used for justifying selection of instructional technologies.

As with most change, once you have grounds for use, it then becomes a matter of creation of learning activities, but to do this an understanding of what VoiceThread can do is needed.

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