Web 2.0 Tool 1: Glogster
Glogster is a way to create multimedia virtual posters, scrapbooks, or e-portfolio pages. During my school years I can remember how many projects or presentations I had to create a poster for a visual. I’m sure you can remember cutting up magazines, coloring in words, and making diagrams. In today’s world students are more digital natives and have more computers available. Imagine if posters were a good medium 10 years ago, glogs are today’s answer for the new generation.
Glogster is a free, web-based tool that you can create any type of poster you can think of including adding videos. Registration is quick and easy only basic information like a user name, password, email address, and your birthday are needed. Once you’ve received a confirmation email form Glogster, you can create a profile. Creating a glog is easy and a lot of fun. The website provides a large amount of backgrounds, graphics, and text options. The graphics can be found in a range of styles and colors, sizes and orientation can be changed. They even offer animated graphics that flash or move to add that extra element to the collage. Images can be uploaded from your computer files as a background or just as a part. Glogster adds that digital advantage by allowing sound, videos and hyperlinks to be included. Lastly just click to save and publish.
This site if more than just creating terrific virtual posters, you can use it as a social network. From your dashboard you can see messages, your friends, add your current status, and see your glogs. You can share your glogs, or keep them private. Users can comment, rate, add it to your favorites, or send to your friends through email. Glogster is a creative social website that allows for creative freedom and collaboration. One of the big bonuses to this site is that you can share your glog outside of their website. You can copy the code to post it on other sites like wikis and blogs, or you can click the easy share button to add it to several other social networking sites.
Glogster additional resources:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgqwv5cr_127g7nqc8fm
http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=936
References
A New World of Educational Innovation Awaits You. (n.d.).Retrieved October 8, 2009, from http://edu.glogster.com
Hey Jaime,
ReplyDeleteThis is is really great source! I can really see my students being excited about this and spending quality time to create a fun, informational glog. As a music teacher, I especially appreciate the ability to add audio clips to the "poster" - how cool! This tool could really help add life and excitement into class presentations!
Thanks!
Liz
Thank you for sharing, Jamie! There are just so msny web 2.0 tools out there and it is great to see what others are finding. I could see my student's using this program in my classroom for their book talk presentations. My middle schoolers are always asking if they have to draw or color their work- I remember when drawing and coloring was all I wanted to do int school; today's kids, however, are bored with the traditional presentation tools. I believe my students would love this program! Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a great elearning tool. Thanks for sharing the details. I would recommend it to mey colleagues.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful post and poster. Did you print the poster for your wall? Love the lightning bolt and the additional YouTube video.
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