Glogster
Glogster is a Web 2.0 tool that is an online toolkit that allows you to create interactive posters, with text, images, graphics, audio, and videos. As a teacher, you can create lessons and present them omplete with links to other resources. Having the audio and video option makes it easy for kids to listen instead of read, and attends to all learners, especially the visual, auditory, and linguistic.
Glogster supports and meets the needs of special education and other students because there are images, audio and video on them. Glogs are always a fun way to learn and engage your students. Providing a mutlisensory outlet for expression and stimulates creativity.
Glogster allows you to set up and create accounts for all your students and they have access to create their own glogs and save them at anytime. It is a safe, collaborative and interactive platform for students to use both in and outside the classroom. Students can create their their glog anyway they want, allowing for a lot of unique and creative glogs in your classroom.
For grades 6-8 I can create a lesson on any social studies topic, like Roman History. Then the students can create their own glogs that contain images, texts, videos, on 6 important facts they learned about the Romans. This will allow for a variety of ways they can show me whay they learned. Glogster is a great Web 2.0 tool because it removes the barriers for certain learners. Glogster is flexiable and allows the students to express their learning in many ways, and they can share their glog with anyone they like. I will be using Glogster when I am a teacher as it is an amazing interactive tool.
