Assessment 1 - Reflection 4 - Week 5 (Prezi, PowerPoint and Glogster)

Group 3 Tools - Glogster

Glogster EDU is a tool to create online multimedia "posters" or "scrapbooks" that can incorporate many elements into a visual area: images, text, videos, music, links, and much more. Students using Glogster will have countless ways to creatively express themselves and learn through collaboration, making it easy for you to differentiate and engage each student. Here are some examples of Glogsters as found on the homepage at Glogster EDU.

A Video Glog

A Mathematics Glog

The EDU community offered by Glogster was developed to deter inappropriate content and contact with users not welcome in your classrooms' electronic community. This provides classes advertising-free glogs and easy teacher monitoring of student work. Students can comment and interact within a "gated community" with education-friendly options for collaboration and learning.

Glogster Features:

• online multimedia presentations - with text, 
• photos, 
• videos, 
• graphics, 
• sounds, 
• drawings, 
• data attachments 
• Templates avaialble;
•  or create your own 
• printable 
• embed into blogs, websites or wiki's 

Classroom ideas:

• Create a class glog together to sample the tools.
• 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, 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. 
• When you are finished exploring, decide whether the glog is readu to be published or wheter it remains a sample form. 
• Next have students individually or in pairs create the own Glogsters. 
• Work with "friends" (classmates) in the Glogster EDU area or via URL and other social networking tools. 
• All Glogs are accessible via the teacher dashboardwhen using the premium account. 

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. 

Below is a screenshot of the Glogster embedding feature.

Feature that allows embedding

Redefinition  Technology allows for creation of new tasks, previously inconceivable	Students create a visual essay, or scientific report with many of the glogster functions used to present the piece. However Glogs may also be viewed collaborateively in order to learn from each other.
Modification  Technology allows for significant task redesign	Students "create" a whole-class glog together using an interactive whiteboard. The Glog is a collaborative space for information to be accessed and shared.
Augmentation    Technology acts as a direct tool substitute, with functional improvement.	Digital scrapbooks using images   from the public domain and video and audio clips from a time in history can be used to augment a lesson which would otherwise have used books.
Substitution  Technology acts as a direct tool substitute, with no functional change.	Personal reflections in images and text; this substitutes writing a reflection on paper and drawing a picture.

Below is an example of a Glogster I created in a previous University assignment.