Glogster

What is Glogster-Edu?

~Glogster is an educational tool used to make multimedia posters with text, photos, videos, sounds, attachments, and more to learn in a creative way.

What makes Glogster-Edu unique?

~Teachers create classes in which they can post assignments for each student to make a poster including the requirements. More ways are that teachers can include presentation, students can have portfolios, and social networks can be linked to the Glogster. Most importantly, it is a very creative means to get the students engaging more in the lesson.
 *  **Pros ** || **Cons ** ||
 * * User-friendly, the learning curve is very low.
 * Multi-sensory- students and teachers can portray information visually, with sound, and with words, helping those who learn differently. The glog “On the Farm,” shows ESL students their vocabulary in many ways.
 * The glogs are saved and can be used for review or added on to. In the grammar glog, students who are reviewing for tests can access the glog and study their verb tenses.
 * The glogs can be posted onto webpages or blogs to show other students, parents, or the world. The Giver glogs were posted to the class Wiki- anyone, including parents, can access this, involving them in the learning process.
 * Teachers can view their students work anytime and provide feedback during the creative process.
 * Students can log on from home and continue their work- can also be used in the library or the classroom.
 * Enhances students creativity and motivation .
 * Students can collaborate.
 * It is easy to embed student-created content from other places (YouTube, Inspiration, etc). The glogs from The Giver use videos of the author and link to the author’s glog. Starting the kids exploration of the internet helps to keep them exploring. || * Students can get distracted by all of the elements causing them to focus more on aesthics than content. In the Hercules glog, the student focuses more on pictures than layout, causing the eye to get lost sometimes.
 * Technology glitches can cause “lost” projects.
 * <span style="color: #4f6228; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; text-align: justify;">Not all schools have the resources available for students to work on their own glogs. If you want each of your students to create a glog on the labors of Hercules and do not have the technology for each student to have a computer, the project won’t work.
 * <span style="color: #ff0066; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; text-align: justify;">If the students are collaborating, it is hard to tell who did what. One student could have done all the work.
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Some students may not have access from home <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">.
 * <span style="color: #ff0066; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; text-align: justify;">A lot of computing power is needed- if your network is slow, Glogster will be tough to run. Any of the teacher created glogs above need fast processers for all of the links and embedded videos to work.

<span style="color: #ff0066; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; text-align: center;">Pros and Cons are from: Glogster in the Classroom ||

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 * Links to Examples || What was emphasized in the specific blog ||
 * Poetry || <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> When scrolling over a picture, a circle is created which shows the picture is a link to another page, containing information about the topic.  <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">   ||
 * Place Value || Voice can be added to a glogster page.  <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> ||
 * History of Canada || Boxes can stroll to obtain maximum amount of information in a small space.  <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> ||

Our opinion about Glogster-Edu:

Glogster can be a helpful, but frustrating tool to work with. It has its advantages for having students research a topic at the start of a lesson. After the students are very familiar with the material, the tool loses its instructional value. Glogster offers a place for students to express their creativity through a technological tool and teachers can evaluate the students either individually or as collaboration. Then again on a negative note, working with Glogster during my project, I had lost work in which I had completed. This was a downfall found by others too that I researched. They had saved a page, but it got lost and never found.