Instructions for Teachers

Whether you are a teacher? You have not heard of Glogster? I suggest you to meet him!

Because-Glogster belongs to you!!

Start by creating a glog together as a class to try out the tools (don't forget to name it). Keep it simple or add all the bells and whistles. Preview as you work or return later to complete and publish your Glog. Add ready-made graphics, images from files on your computer or by URL on the web, links (hyperlinked from text or other objects), text boxes or bubbles, backgrounds ("walls"), animated graphics ("vinyl and toys"), recorded audio, embedded video from SchoolTube or TeacherTube, uploaded media file, and much more. You can also "grab" video or audio from your computer's webcam and mike. [Our editors had some trouble "grabbing" video from a Mac using Firefox, so TEST in advance. A very responsive Glogster EDU tech crew tells us they are working to correct that glitch.]

Of course you will want to model and teach appropriate documentation of any sources of images and media you use and to use copyrighted works legally. If you limit access to your class only by keeping a glog "private," you can use copyrighted materials under Fair Use. YOU must limit the distribution of the URL, however.

When you are done working, decide whether the glog is "unfinished" or "finished" (and published), and decide whether it will be public or not. Share finished work with "friends" (classmates) in the Glogster EDU area or via URL and other social networking tools. You can access ALL your glogs and your students' glogs from your teacher dashboard (if you have one of the premium accounts,) including the glog URLs. What can you do with your free teacher account? You can embed a glog in your class wiki or blog, as a landing page for all of your important links. This same glog can be embedded anywhere you need. Your wiki, blog, school website, and more. The advantage? Change your glog whenever you want and it changes all the other places. Watch the tutorials on embedding so you can learn how to adjust the size of the embed window and which codes work best for wikispaces.

Possible uses: (in addition to those shown in the sample glog here) Create "visual essays;" digital biodiversity logs (with digital pictures students take); online literary magazines; personal reflections in images and text; research project presentations; comparisons of online content, such as political candidates' sites or content sites used in research (compared for bias); documenting science experiments or illustrating concepts, such as the water cycle; "Visual" lab reports; Digital scrapbooks using images from the public domain and video and audio clips from

a time in history -- such as the Roaring Twenties; Local history features; visual interpretations of major concepts, such as a "visual" U.S. Constitution. Build a library of sample Glogs by you or by former students, then ask students to create their own as a new way to assess understanding: you could even provide links to images and raw materials they may use (especially if you have students who need extra scaffolding), and they can work with them to sequence, caption, and write about the pieces. After a first project where you possibly suggest "building blocks," the sky

is the limit on what they can do. Even the very young can make suggestions as you "create" a whole-class glog together using an interactive whiteboard. Consider making a new project for each unit you teach so students can "recap" by visiting the glog long after the unit ends. Save student glogs from year to year as examples, possibly even awarding prizes for "best" examples. Have upper elementary or middle school students create "glogs for understanding" for "little buddies" two or three grades lower.

Links:

1. http://edu.glogster.com/?ref=com

2. http://www.glogster.com/josipaiva/kako-napraviti-dobar-poster-na-glogsteru/g-6ma78ikk1lv975b0gacica0

3. http://pogledkrozprozor.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/glogster-edu-pomocnik-u-nastavi/

4. http://dubravka.edu.glogster.com/glogster-edu-in-6st-class

5. http://pogledkrozprozor.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/glogster-edu-pomocnik-u-nastavi/

6. http://razred83.wordpress.com/nastava-i-nove-ideje/interaktivni-pano-u-nastavi/

Samobor, 24.07.2014.