Glogster is an online poster application that has a lot of potential beyond social networking and scrapbooking! As a future teacher, you will be asked to consider those possibilities. While I offer some ways I have used Glogster below, I invite you to consider additional uses.
Here a student wiki not only explains what Glogster is but lists benefits it offers in terms of educational uses. ABC News talks about Glogster and how it connects education, technology, and visual media:
Want to try creating a glog? Check out this tutorial to assist you!
Glogs to Introduce People:
I created a glog to introduce myself to students this semester — to let them get to know me outside the classroom.
Glogs for Alternative Book Reports and Other Assignments:
Another glog I created, is an alternative book report for Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak. Something really bad has happened to Melinda Sordino just before she starts her freshman year of high school, but no one knows what it is because she isn’t talking about it. This ostracizes her from her peers and her family, and she could not feel more like a misfit in a place where everyone wants to fit in with others. Melinda finds refuge in a janitor’s closet at school and connects with the poetry of Maya Angelou. In fact, because she cannot stand the sight of herself, she covers the mirror in the janitor’s closet with a poster of Maya Angelou. She is plagued with the assignment of re-creating a tree for her art class, and no matter what she tries, she just can’t seem to get it right. Her best work of art all year has been a sculpture recreated from turkey bones left over from her family’s Thanksgiving dinner. Remember decorating your own locker in high school, trying to make just the right statement about who you are as you claim this tiny space for yourself? What might Melinda’s locker look like? My glog response to Speak shows what I think Melinda’s locker might look like.
