Glogster is a combination of a Blog, with a Poster. It allows teachers or students to create colorful presentations and post them online. The poster can contain video, images, text, sound, data attachments and more.
With my free account, I can have up to 50 student accounts. This would allow my students to make projects and post them through my account to simplify my ability to grade.
For my project I decided to provide some training videos on the Order of Operations. The site links videos directly from School Tube, so uploading is a breeze. Once I got the knack of editing, the project came together quickly. This could be a very interesting way to present information, as well as a good way to offer project-based assessment to students. For an artistic student this would be perfect for developing creative expression within almost any discipline.
The site also allows educators to share their work with other educators. Through tagging, educators can search for other Glogs, from over 5 million users worldwide.
Here is my completed Glog: http://annealsup.edu.glogster.com/order-of-operations/
This is clear, concise, and thorough. Just like you. I coulda done this with Google.docs this morning & been grading papers for the last 4 hours. If I don't get someone at school to show me how to use google.sites tomorrow, that's just what I'm gonna come home and do.
ReplyDeleteSTILL my hero!
Anne,
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool. I love the colors and you make math seem like its so much fun! I agree with Debra it's you clear, concise, and thorough! You rock Technogal.
Anna, what a great tool and I love the way you use it. I checked out your Glog and it looks very cool. I think this would be a great tool for me to use for a home school connection. It could be my news letter and student work and videos. Love it! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteGreetings, Anne! :)
ReplyDeleteGlogster is fun for a lot of students. I teach a completely online Algebra II course for Florida Virtual School. We have also dabbled with Glogster a bit. The only complaint that we received was that it took too long to load, especially if you had a really impressive Glog. :)
You may want to also check out Weebly. Proceed with caution, though. I LOVE it, but it is blocked at some schools. Supposedly, there is a way to hack into inappropriate websites through the Weebly platform. I have determined that students are smart enough to find a "back door" with just about any software. :)
I definitely like the way you're using Glogster - to review major mathematical concepts. Idea...do you think some of your students would be interested in creating a Glog that reviews other mathematical topics? Perhaps, they could create the review and present to the class. It may be a quick way to create several Glogs that cover several topics. This serves two purposes. First, your students will solidify their understanding of the topic they choose. Second, you get a lot of resources in a shorter amount of time, without you having to personally create each Glog. :)
Part of my action research project is to create resources to help my students throughout the course (since I'm not allowed to alter the course content). I am open to any and all suggestions/advice/criticism. :)
I am now following your blog and look forward to reading about your discoveries.
Thank you for sharing!
Amanda McGhee
Anne,
ReplyDeleteYou have created another great piece here. Your Glog would be fun for students and I think that you could use this format for many lessons. I also think students will be inspired to do some creative work of their own, if not spontaneously, then by assignment! For my first grade students, we might work collaboratively to first learn how to create a Glog and bring it to life. I think they might be able to team up with an older student to create a work of their own. The gadgets and choices to be made on the site are so extensive and varied, I think my young ones would need one on one help to learn the process and then practice. It sure would be interesting to try it out. I'd like to see what your students do with this tool. Good Luck!
Anne,
ReplyDeleteI was really impressed with your use of this tool. I had actually looked at this tool for one of my blog posts and had dismissed it as too elementary. I teach junior high. After looking at your Order of Operations poster, I realize that this is definitely a tool I could use in my eight grade classroom. I teach Reading, and I routinely have my students create posters for the concepts that we are studying. I normally post these projects around the room, and they quickly fade into the background. This application would allow my students to create their posters and I could post them on my Edublog account or my classroom website. I was thinking that I could also have them play on my classroom Safari system. I think that this would definitely increase student engagement in my class. I was planning to use videos (that I would create) to teach literary elements this year. I could make posters for each concept and then post the videos to this page. This would enable me to find outside videos from sources like Viddler and Schooltube and post them to some of these posters. This is another great tool that I plan to use a lot of in the future.
Anne,
ReplyDeleteGlogster is an awesome Web 2.0 tool to use. I am sure that my mathematics high school students would benefit from this. You made a great point about how it could give students the chance to be creative with their presentations that they could
post online.
My students would retain many mathematical concepts, which is part of my Action Research Project as well. They would be able to apply higher order thinking skills, and get the chance to create mathematical applicable pictures, jingles. They can also research different concepts to claim as their own.
A great example for my students would be to initiate a creative jingle on solving basic algebraic equations, while researching that algebraic concept that will blend into their project.
Anne, thanks for researching this Web 2.0 Glogster tool! I can’t wait to use it!