Glogster.com is a website, whose motto is "Poster
Yourself". Basically, it is a 2.0 and 21st century teaching tool on beta version where
students can go to create an online collage, or poster, using pictures that they upload
themselves. It is pre-loaded with a number of templates. The users only need to follow
the different shapes and easy-to-follow directions so that they can organize the
pictures by size, shape, and theme. Also, it is free to use and no harder than other
sites that you can find for free use online.
Glogster can
be used as a graphic organizing tool, as a tool for focal learning, or as a way to
infuse art and technology in the classroom instruction. You can post your Glogster to
the glogster gallery, upload it and save it as a graphic, or just print
it.
In my personal experience with Glogster the important
part is to know what is the topic that will be explored and to have relevant pictures to
go with it. It is best to save all your pictures first to a file that you know where to
find, and then just follow the Glogster directions.
Also,
whatever vocabulary you will include in your Glogster please ensure it is spelled
correctly because once you finish your Glogster, you cannot change it. So, however
creative you may be, the main idea of a Glogster is the integration of art, technology,
but also language arts- and fun!
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