Glogster EDU
West Hartford Public Schools has a recent subscription to Glogster EDU. So what is Glogster you ask?
A Glog is an interactive visual platform in which users create a “poster or web page” containing multimedia elements including: text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawings, and data. Take a look at some uses for Glogs in the classroom.
- Handout versions:
- Traci Blazosky’s handout
- Quick Glogster Tutorial PDF (12 pages)
- Glogster Set Up for Students PDF
- TechIn20 – a one-pager (front/back)
- Video tutorials:
- Glogster Tech Tip – 15-minute, very complete, very informative and easy to follow!
- 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
Glogster Presentations
- Extreme Makeover- Traci Blazosky’s slideshow
- Glog On! – Jan McGee’s slideshow
- Glogster Presentation – from Digital Maverick
- Create Online Posters – from Box of Tricks
- Glogster in High School Science – Teacher and student viewpoints
Glogster-NCTE09.pptx – NCTE 2009 ‘drive-by’ preso by Gail Desler (used to provide peek into my ‘internet-less’) poster session.
Background Information
- Moorhouse University tutorial>
- Glogster in the Classroom – article from Education World
- Glogs: Virtual Online Posters – from Arizona State University
Advanced User Resources
- Embedding glogs into wikis and blogs – I followed Box of Trick’s directions to embed Huge Cabret glog shown below. Includes helpful tip on reducing glog size!
- Adding Extra Features to Your Glog – More from Glog queen Traci Blazosky.
Glog Samples
- Jim Dachos’ Links to Great Glogs – Jim Dachos, Glogster Education Manager, shares samples via Diigo
- Historical Timeline Glog Project – intermediate level
- Greetings from Around the World – award-winning wiki, using glogs for students to share about their countries
- Causes of the American Revolution – intermediate level
- Student Poetry Glogs – high school level
- Springfield Virtual Library – Joyce Valenza’s site
- Hidenwood Principal’s Glog- Exciting to see an administrator coming on board with Web 2.0.
- Invention of Hugo Cabret – extension of novel – with look at early
- filmmaking components of story – easily embedded below;-)
Audio Resources:
- http://www.soungle.com/ – The simplest way to search and find sounds
Image Resources
Music Resources


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