(Edu)Glogster is a collaborative online learning platform for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom" (Glogster, 2012). A creator can add not only pictures and texts, but video, audio, sounds, drawings, and data can be added. The site advertises there is no need to create the old fashion poster-board with markers, crayons, coloring pencils, and glued on pieces of magazine cut-outs.
Instead of creating a poster project, a teacher could assign a student or a group of students a particular topic in the current unit the class is studying. Glogster allows a student or group of students to work on it at anytime or anywhere, of course, as long as there is a computer with Internet access. The software gives the freedom to allow students to add pictures, graphics, sound, and video at the students' discretion. This is something no poster project is going to be able to replicate.
For any given assignment utilizing this educational tool, there should be no little or no replication by students. There is so much creative leeway no student or students will want to try to copy off of someone else's. Students will naturally want to share their glog projects with others within the class. The nature of students wanting to be unique or different surely will be able to police themselves when it comes to the issue of copying/cheating, which most teachers if not all face with other class assignments.
Uniqueness and creative ability will be brought out in all students no matter what age or level of abilities they have. As long as teachers come up with a general parameter of what is expected of the assignment using this online tool, many, if not all students will have walked away learning more about a particular topic then they realized using this online tool.
Please go to the link below:
http://chaptravelman.edu.glogster.com/my-first-glog/
Instead of creating a poster project, a teacher could assign a student or a group of students a particular topic in the current unit the class is studying. Glogster allows a student or group of students to work on it at anytime or anywhere, of course, as long as there is a computer with Internet access. The software gives the freedom to allow students to add pictures, graphics, sound, and video at the students' discretion. This is something no poster project is going to be able to replicate.
For any given assignment utilizing this educational tool, there should be no little or no replication by students. There is so much creative leeway no student or students will want to try to copy off of someone else's. Students will naturally want to share their glog projects with others within the class. The nature of students wanting to be unique or different surely will be able to police themselves when it comes to the issue of copying/cheating, which most teachers if not all face with other class assignments.
Uniqueness and creative ability will be brought out in all students no matter what age or level of abilities they have. As long as teachers come up with a general parameter of what is expected of the assignment using this online tool, many, if not all students will have walked away learning more about a particular topic then they realized using this online tool.
Please go to the link below:
http://chaptravelman.edu.glogster.com/my-first-glog/