Glogster

Glogster is an online poster/web page creation tool. Users can include text, images (uploaded or links from the web), video, and audio to create an interactive online poster. It has an easy to master interface which allows for a lot of fun creativity. The education version of the site allows up to 200 students to be managed under a teacher account. Glogs can be linked or embedded in your wiki or other online site. Teachers may introduce Glogster using this group project, however its real strength is when students create glogs to demonstrate mastery of learning. Rather than create a poster or another PowerPoint presentation they create an interactive glog.

Connections to Strategies

 * Cues, Questions and Advanced Organizers //-// brainstorm everything a class knows about a topic and then add links, images, sounds, and even video
 * Summarizing & Note Taking //-// summarize the key learnings in a glog
 * Cooperative Learning //-// create a glog where group members find resources and contribute
 * Nonlinguistic Representation //-// use images to illustrate the ideas for an autobiography before writing
 * Similarities and Differences //-// visually illustrate similarities and differences in two sides of the glog

Learn about Glogster EDU
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Traci Blazosky's Google Docs Tutorial - much of the same information but text is easier to read

Activity - Use Glogster as an Advance Organizer
>> page on your wiki.
 * 1) This activity will provide an advance organizer which could be a part of a K-W-L activity. This would be the K - what do students know about a topic.
 * 2) Start by creating a free account in Edu.Glogster
 * 3) Create a glog and add text boxes to record information. Add images. You can use your own images or find them on the Internet. A list of websites where you can find copyright-free images can be found on the Resources page.
 * 4) As appropriate, these ideas may be moved into different areas of the screen and the symbols recolored to visually organize similar ideas.
 * 5) You have an option to add other elements as you want. When finished, the glog shoud be embedded into the //Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizer//
 * For additional help with this activity, refer to the step-by-step instructions:** **[|Glogster.pdf]**

Extension (optional)

 * 1) Add hyperlinks, images, sounds or video to the list. It's amazingly easy to add multimedia.
 * 2) Have your students create their glog and use it to demonstrate understanding of a topic.
 * 3) Embed examples of student glogs on your wiki.

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