Glogster EDU
What is Glogster?
Glogster is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters, or Glogs. The Glog, short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content. Glogster provides an environment to design interactive posters. The user inserts text, images, photos, audio, videos, special effects and other elements into their Glogs to generate a multimedia online creation. These Glogs can also be printed for display n paper form or for students' portfolios. Once your Glog is completed, right click and the click: Print.
Glogster @ Clayfield College
Clayfield College has a Junior Schooling account which can be accessed via Angela Clark - our JS ICT Leader.
Getting Started with Glogster
As with most Web 2.0 teaching tools, it is relatively simple to set up a Glogster account for your students. Getting started is safe, private, and user-friendly. Teachers can sign up at the Glogster Edu site. After completing the registration steps, you will receive an email with your nickname, password and login link. From here you can add students to your account.Teachers can register up to 50 student accounts. All 50 may be added during the initial registration, or accounts can be added later to bring the total number of accounts to 50. After entering in the number of student accounts you need, you will receive randomly generated nicknames and passwords in your message box and email. You can change your students’ passwords before you distribute them to your students, or give your students the randomly generated passwords and instruct them to change their passwords under Account Settings.
Why use Glogster in the Classroom?
Glogster has become enormously popular in recent times. It is fast developing as a major tool for students to demonstrate their learning in a creative manner. In the classroom, Glogster gives the students the opportunity to increase digital literacy and enhance their learning experiences by:
What can Glogster be used for in the Classroom?
Glogster can be used for any curriculum area. Students can create a Glog to display any new knowledge or learning. Completed Glogs can be embedded into your school VLE or Class Blog. The following are different examples for different subject areas.
English:
Glogpedia Library
For a variety of teacher generated Glogs, which are subject based, tap into the Glogpedia Library.
Glogster is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters, or Glogs. The Glog, short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content. Glogster provides an environment to design interactive posters. The user inserts text, images, photos, audio, videos, special effects and other elements into their Glogs to generate a multimedia online creation. These Glogs can also be printed for display n paper form or for students' portfolios. Once your Glog is completed, right click and the click: Print.
Glogster @ Clayfield College
Clayfield College has a Junior Schooling account which can be accessed via Angela Clark - our JS ICT Leader.
Getting Started with Glogster
As with most Web 2.0 teaching tools, it is relatively simple to set up a Glogster account for your students. Getting started is safe, private, and user-friendly. Teachers can sign up at the Glogster Edu site. After completing the registration steps, you will receive an email with your nickname, password and login link. From here you can add students to your account.Teachers can register up to 50 student accounts. All 50 may be added during the initial registration, or accounts can be added later to bring the total number of accounts to 50. After entering in the number of student accounts you need, you will receive randomly generated nicknames and passwords in your message box and email. You can change your students’ passwords before you distribute them to your students, or give your students the randomly generated passwords and instruct them to change their passwords under Account Settings.
Why use Glogster in the Classroom?
Glogster has become enormously popular in recent times. It is fast developing as a major tool for students to demonstrate their learning in a creative manner. In the classroom, Glogster gives the students the opportunity to increase digital literacy and enhance their learning experiences by:
- Enjoy a fun Learning experience
- Demonstrate mastery of technology tools
- collaborate with others to broaden and deepen understanding
- use the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products that express new understandings
- use technology tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view, use, and acces
- tapping into learners’ interests, offering appropriate challenges, and increasing motivation
- providing learners options for demonstrating what they know
What can Glogster be used for in the Classroom?
Glogster can be used for any curriculum area. Students can create a Glog to display any new knowledge or learning. Completed Glogs can be embedded into your school VLE or Class Blog. The following are different examples for different subject areas.
English:
- Book Reviews
- Character Portrayals
- Story Settings
- New Vocabulary
- Parts of Speech
- Play Posters
- Poetry
- Digital Storytelling
- Explain Mathematical concepts
- Demonstrate Learning/Understanding in various areas.
- Create a Glog showing Real World Maths
- Create a Glog on Famous Mathematicians
- Glog on Body Systems
- Interactive Solar System Glog
- Explain Forces
- Energy Glogs
- Famous people, time or era
- Timeline of events
- Arguments for and against
- Specific Information on historical Episode.
- Famous Artist/Period
- Comparison of work/ paintings
- Detailed analysis of paintings
Glogpedia Library
For a variety of teacher generated Glogs, which are subject based, tap into the Glogpedia Library.
Tips and Useful Links
Setting Up a Glog:
Handout versions:
Video tutorials:
Advanced User Resources:
Handout versions:
- Traci Blazosky's handout
- Glogster Set Up for Students PDF
- TechIn20 - a one-pager (front/back)
Video tutorials:
- Traci Blazosky's tutorial - 5-minute, excellent guided tour by 1st grade teacher extraordinaire!
- 90-Second Intro to Glogster - Well, I'd use this one for a review
- Extreme Makeover- Traci Blazosky's slideshow
- Glog On! - Jan McGee's slideshow
- Glogster Presentation - from Digital Maverick
- Create Online Posters - from Box of Tricks
Advanced User Resources:
- Embedding glogs into wikis and blogs - Includes helpful tip on reducing glog size!
- Adding Extra Features to Your Glog - More from Glog queen Traci Blazosky.
40+ Ways to Innovative Teaching Using Glogster EDU
Click on the picture below to launch to a Glogster Blog page with plenty of suggestions on how to make this a useful and engaging tool in your classroom.
