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.
Glog On!
View more presentations from Jan McGee
- 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
Greetings! I'm Denise Jaffe, and here you'll find out what's new and meaningful with Instructional Technology in West Hartford Public Schools.
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