Digi Stories and Voicethread

This past week in class we were able to look at digital stories as well as work at creating our own digital story on Voicethread.  This was a very interesting site but I felt there were some problems with it.  The story that we watched was about a little girl explaining her haircut.  It was a cute story but it was frustrating because it was supposed to be a sequential story but was continuously interrupted by people's comments about each slide.  It was a little frustrating because I just wanted to hear the story and not listen to what everyone else had to say about the story.  I am not sure if that can be fixed by not allowing people to make comments on individual slides except for the last one, but that will be something to figure out.  I feel that if this wasn't possible, Voicethread would be create to use for teachers if they are just seeking a reflection on a particular aspect of what was done in class that day or during that unit.  There are many other possible applications for digital stories, but not necessarily on Voicethread.