Glogster is a new online tool that anyone can use with free registration to make an interactive poster. It is fairly easy to use after a little tinkering around and offers a pretty nice selection of graphics and styles that would appeal to anyone who is interested in scrapbooking and making personalized websites, if you don't mind being limited to a set amount of space to work on.
My first ideas for using Glogster in the classroom started with making a "poster" that was set up to send students on a webquest I had built, or maybe using it to list alternative versions of an assignment or opportunities for extra credit. While I think these ideas are worthwhile, I think that they are not using the creativity that Glogster lend itself to in its fullest capacity.
So then I thought about using this tool as a place for students where students can make an online and interactive poster in place of the traditional poster assignments that generally don't get the student participation that I usually hope for. So I developed my own glog that students can look at to see their assignment, and then each student can make their own Glog to complete the assignment. Some good things I see are that first, the limited workspace becomes a useful control on how much time students put on the assignment versus how much time they spend playing with graphics and font sizes. I was impressed with how easy it was to add a movie from YouTube and add pictures and make them look cool without spending too much time on it. I really like the idea of students being able to make an interactive poster and even grading them could be fun. I'd just have each student complete their glog, and then copy the link to it in a spreadsheet I would have set up in google docs or some place that students could easily paste it into.
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