Here's my first ever glog. I kind of like this idea. It's a new interesting approach to things. If I were to use this for my class I could use it like I did in my glog, as a poetry lesson. The students can use this for their final project and create their own glog on their own poetry. I would have them use at least 4 images separate from the background and a song for the background. This is a new and creative example to creating their own poetry. To keep control of who makes what, I would probably have to make a profile just for their class and have each of them log into it and create a glog with their name at the top of it.
This was a cool assignment, and I had fun creating it.
I'm so glad you did glogster! I really like it, and I think it has a lot of potential in the classroom. Most of the people on glogster are teenagers, in fact! They really, really do well with this emergent genre.
ReplyDeleteNow, in order to get full points for this project, you just need to answer a few questions about glogster. I just realized that we didn't have a glogster tutorial, so I just wrote one. Here are the questions:
Practice using Glogster by making a glog that is unique and interesting, using images, text, and possibly audio.
Embed the glog in your class website.
Answer the following questions on your blog:
What did you learn about Glogster?
What instructional problems could you use this technology for?
What are 2-3 activities you could use this technology for in your own teaching? List the instructional standards if you can identify them.
I learned that glogster is an easy and creative way to write poetry or express things that you would have easily done on a poster board, but it doesn't sit around and collect dust. Students can do this for any type of project for any subject. If I did this project in a class I would use it as a way to make a poster for a poetry lesson, like I said in my description of it above. Or, even have them create one as a final project for a book. The problems I can see in this, though, is the copyright issues and how I would view all of them. I'd need to get everyone's screen names. Also, it would be hard to see if they didn't just copy some other people.
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