Glogster

Do your students create poster projects? Book reports? Research presentations? Oral presentation? Expand your project options bytoc incorporating Glogster! Glosgster is a web-based authoring environment where students can create multimedia posters incorporating text, visuals, audio, and video. Make the boring poster project come alive with multimedia! Glogster Glogster EDU What is Glogster EDU? Compare Glogster EDU Basic and Premium

Digital Posters: Composing with an online canvas Glogster diigo group - explore resources and ideas that others have bookmarked for making glogs
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Video Tutorials to Get Started
Glogster.com - Learn the Basics (8:31)- from the staff of Glogster media type="custom" key="12841606"

Creating a Glog (10:47) media type="custom" key="12841544"

**Sample Glogs**
The embedded glogs below are scaled to 50% to fit within the wiki - click the link to see the full size glog

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Birth of America (has audio that plays) Ethics and The Giver

Here is a collaborative project of glogs from around the world: Greetings from the World(note - there is a sound file that automatically plays upon loading this website)

GeoGlogs is an elementary collaborative glog project just getting started!

Browse Glogs by category.

**Creating a glog!**
What is your style? 1. You can go to Glogster and just start creating. 2. You can look at these Glogster Tools and other training glogs 3. Like step-by-step? Open this document that describes how to register at Glogster EDU along with step by step instructions! pages 1-4 are setting up your account screenshots, pages 4-11 are how to create a glog.

1. Open the above document and follow the instructions to register at Glogster EDU 2. Create a Glog including text, graphics, images, and perhaps links and video, save it, and post the URL to your glog in the chat window so we can all see it. 3. Think about what glogs your students can create.
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Check our resource page about locating copyright available images!

**How to resize for embedding**
edit the embed code scale and width:
 * //scale=”100″// means 100%, that is full size. Change the value to //50// for a half size Glog
 * //width=”960″// and //height=”1300″// are the width and height in pixels of the Glog


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**Thoughts for in the Classroom**
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•User-friendly, the learning curve is very low. •Have students brainstorm the type of content they could put on their glog and gather resources prior to creating glog •Multi-sensory- students and teachers can portray information visually, with sound, and with words, helping those who learn differently. •The glogs are saved and can be used for review or added on to. •The glogs can be posted onto webpages or blogs to show other students, parents, or the world. •Teachers can view their students work anytime and provide feedback during the creative process. •Students can log on from home and continue their work •Enhances students creativity and motivation. •Students can collaborate. •It is easy to embed student-created content from other places (YouTube, Inspiration, etc). •Students can get distracted by all of the elements causing them to focus more on aesthics than content - may want to think about what makes for good design. •Technology glitches can cause “lost” projects. •A lot of computing power is needed- if your network is slow, Glogster will be tough to run. •Be sure to use Glogster EDU. Regular Glogster functions the same way, but the pictures and images used are not regulated. Some may be inappropriate for school use. •Be sure to give students time to play around with the program or create a mini glog before giving them a full project. If you do not, most will get too distracted by the graphics and not have much content. •Use a glog like a poster- have your students orally explain their choices. This makes color choices and layout even more important to the student. Let students talk about their glogs and ideas- a discussion will create more learning oppurtunitites. •Modeling your own glogs is a good way to show students how to use the space, what kinds of content can be used, and spark creativity. Create an assignment sheet or a model of what students will be doing.