Glogster

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A glog is a really neat way to create a poster. It allows you to add video and sound to your poster, as well as pictures and text. The neat thing about all of these options is you can make your own to upload or you can choose from its gallery.

You have the opportunity to create your own glog, just click and start creating!

A glog would be a great tool to use in the classroom. After teaching a lesson, a teacher could make a student create a glog based on their knowledge of what they have learned. Or a teacher could create this assignment as a pre-test for the students before teaching the content. Also, maybe the teacher is half-way through the content and wants to know how the students feel about this topic, they can create a glog! The possibilities are endless!!!

I actually believe that there are three standards from the ISTE NETS T that correspond with this lesson. By using a glog, we are promoting and supporting our creativity with technology. As stated before, it is a create tool to use to understand a student's conceptual understanding. It is also a use of emerging digital tools. Teachers can create their lesson to adapt to the uses of glogs.

The only thing that I found disturbing about the glog, and I don't think it is a problem, is you have to find out by trial and error. There isn't anything on the website (at least I couldn't find anything) that told you how to do things. In a way it is a good thing, because you are teaching yourself something. However, it can be very frustrating also! Overall, I enjoyed creating a glog!