Glogster allows users to create free interactive posters, or glogs. A glog, short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content.
The educational version, Glogster EDU, was launched in 2009 to serve the educational community. Glogster EDU allows teachers and pupils to use glogs as instructional aids and share their Glogs in safe, private virtual classroom.
Glogster provides an environment to design interactive posters. The user inserts text, images, photos, audio, videos, special effects and other elements into their glogs to generate a multimedia online creation. Posters can be shared with other users on the site, embedded in external wikis or blogs, and shared via many social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Users can integrate dynamic multi-sensory resources into traditionally text-oriented tasks.
What is Glogster? http://edu.glogster.com/what-is-glogster-edu/Glogster in 90 seconds:
Here is a link to my son's glog: http://mosherfamily.edu.glogster.com/chases-italy-glog/
LOVE LOVE LOVE glogster! Interactive "posters" are awesome. I went to a glogster workshope last year at NCTIES conference---learned a lot. I had high hopes to use it in science this year since we did a lot of posters(but unfortunately I don't teach science this year!) I want to incorporate it in our social studies "economics" unit in May!
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This is really cool. Could be a great way for the kids to make a project that deals with technology.
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I love glogster too! We created a glogster thank you to the PTA last year for sending us to the NCTIES conference. I had my daugher use glogster for a poster assignment she had in Social Studies last year and she just submitted a Science assignement this past weekend using glogster. The kids enjoy it and allows digital creativity.
ReplyDeleteI have seen glogster used very effectively with AIG students in other schools. Also a friend of mine who is a high school ESL teacher has used it with her students. That seems like a great audience for such a visual based product. I do worry about sharing issues. Once the products are finished, can we link them to a website or embed them somehow so that Internet safety isn't an issue?
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