Glogster – More than your white poster board presentation!

Welcome to our ECOESC technology blog! I want to share a new Web 2.0 tool called Glogster for Education. A Glog is a virtual classroom poster, like a blog, but it is fully interactive, allowing students to share links, video, photos, and text to share learning in the classroom.

You might be asking now, what is Glogster? Well, visualize for a minute that you are back in your teenaged bedroom, and your bulletin board is again covered with notes, photos, and important teenaged information. A Glogster poster is your wall corkboard…with much more! A Glog enables a student or teacher to create a virtual poster, working anywhere there is an Internet connection. This virtual poster can contain pictures, text, audio recordings, video clips, and links to other websites, all from one poster front page. Instead of having your students present a PowerPoint, they could instead share the same exciting information by using a Glogster.edu poster creation.  A Glog is very easy to create, even for a young student. These can quickly be created to share information with other students, or other classrooms, and because this is an Internet-based program, it can be shared anytime and anywhere.

Glogster for Education is designed for schools to share content in a completely interconnected and cross-curricular model. In the education side, students can collaborate with other classmates, teachers can share Glogs, and both students and teachers can work together on a class Glog. Glogster for Education is free for individual account users, but a teacher, classroom, or school can sign up for a low cost premium account, giving additional permissions for the creating and sharing of a Glog.

For more information about using Glogster for Education, please contact us at support@ecoesc.org. You can also visit http://edu.glogster.com/ to create your free account today!