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February 2012

What are the challenges for educators today?

• Teachers are challenged to excite and motivate their students.• Students are “digital natives” who live and breathe technology.• Many teaching and learning methods continue to adhere to

traditional paper/poster/textbook models. • Students using traditional methods are not engaged in the

learning process.

The solution: Provide an interactive online learning platform for teachers to engage their students.

Introducing Glogster EDU!

Glogster was inspired by the worldwide poster culture of teenagers. The idea was to recreate their physical bedroom walls in digital format

with multimedia resources. This digital poster is called a GLOG.

Glogster 101

Glog

Girl‘s room

What is a Glog?

A Glog is an interactive digital poster containing:

Glog creation

tool

Glogster EDU for teachersThe simplicity and ease of creating a Glog was attractive to the

educational community in the US.

It was as easy for teachers to prepare a lesson with a Glog as it wasfor teenagers to put together posters of pop stars.

But educators’ demands for a secure and advertisement-free environment for their students required a new, separate platform.

Hence: Glogster EDU.

A simple teacher management system was implemented:

Classroom set up Student portfolio creation Project creation Presentation tools Grading and commenting on student Glogs

Assign tasks

Thoroughly explain the topic

Attach additional information for students

Give a due date

How can a teacher use Glogster EDU? Projects

Homework Creating lesson plans Classroom demonstration tool Resource sharing Professional development

Benefits for teachers Teachers can transform tradition curriculum into CREATIVE and FUN

lessons

Creating Glogs is ENGAGING, MOTIVATING and INSPIRING and enhances students’ digital literacy

Glogs can be saved in the database and viewed and/or UPDATED anytime, saving teachers time

Glog storage is PERMANENT and retrieval is INSTANTANEOUS

Glogster EDU provides a SECURE environment tailored to students and educators

Teachers have FULL CONTROL over student profiles

24/7 help support

search the internet to find relevant data (text, images, video, audio)

recognize and process only reliable and up-to-date information

give structure and composition to the information in order to create a visually appealing end product

Glog projects

Glogs are the perfect end product for any lesson or project assignment. Glog projects require students to:

Teacher & student interaction

It does not end with Glog creation: Students enjoy presenting their work to the class / audience

Students learn to defend their work and answer related questions Glogs can be shared with classmates, teachers, and parents

Student benefits Students find learning FUN, FUN, FUN

Great for PROJECT-BASED LEARNING (independent research, data assessment, Glog creation, presentation of their work)

STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY improves students’ IT skills

Utilize CREATIVITY as well as LOGIC

Excellent for students with SPECIAL NEEDS

Permanent Glog PORTFOLIO

Effective DISTANCE LEARNING tool

PRIVATE and SAFE environment

Over 8,475,000 registered users

worldwide

Where are we now?

652,000 teachers7,823,000 students

11% of US teachers use Glogster EDU

60% users in the USA

Glogster EDU highlights

Easy and fun to use Lessons are never boring; exciting for teachers and

students Scalable for students of all ages Inspires motivation and curiosity Engages both logic and creativity Encourages verbal skills Instills feelings of achievement and pride Glogs are permanent and can be updated anytime Constant improvements to platform Eco friendly

Can Glogster EDU make a difference in your classroom?

Glogster EDU is yours!