Glogster

= GLOGSTER =

According to Glogster.com: "Glogster is a revolutionary way of expressing your moods, feelings, and ideas, and it goes miles beyond text or video! Creating a Glog lets you express all those things you haven’t been able to describe in words. It opens the door to a whole new world of communication – just choose a background, throw in some shapes and characters from our galleries, add text, your own videos or photos, and perhaps a pinch of music, and there it is! In just a few minutes, you can make a digital poster, a colorful medley of ideas reflecting your own special style."

Let's look at My Glog

= Why Glog? = Glogster is a great alternative to a poster. It incorporates all of the elements of a poster that you might assign students, BUT it teaches technology tools and gives the students facility with tools that they will use for years, not just glue sticks and markers. So, by assigning a glog instead of a poster, you are layering the skills which the students learn.
 * Alternative to a Poster: **

My Glog assignment and a Student Glog

Teachers can create a glog instead of a Powerpoint to introduce a new topic, unit or book. The students would stay engaged and focused because a glog speaks their language. Things move and bounce and music comes on with a click. And glog can be embedded into a site or a wiki so that students can review the teacher presentation.
 * Teacher Presentations: **

As described above, a glog incorporates so much more than a poster - you can add digital images, music, videos, moving icons and lots more.
 * And Glogster is FUN **

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Teacher Trouble-shooter

 * If a Glog is Private, it is not displayed on Glogster. Only the people who know its address can see it. For example, if you are a teacher and your students create Glogs as part of their coursework, they can make Private Glogs and send the link to you to you so that you can see and grade their glog.
 * A Glog that is Private can only be shared by its creator, so nobody can present your Glog as their own. If a Glog is Public, any user can view, print or embed it in another web page.
 * The easiest way to grade your students' glogs, if you don't use Glog EDU, is by having them send you the link so you can easily find them.