BP4_Glogster

Glogster, an interactive upgrade to the basic blog, is an excellent resource for teachers to improve motivation for writing. With the posters created with this program students can express their own personality clearly. Pictures, videos, and links can be added to the text making posters a dynamic update to the traditional essay, collage, or poster.

Benefits of Glogs

Every user creates their own profile where their published glogs are displayed. Users can personalize their profile with status updates, personal information and comments, and favorite glogs from the gallery.

Glogs can be created for a number of purposes from a personal biography to a teacher or course introduction to an audio/visual aid for teaching a new concept in class. A benefit of this tool is the gallery of all published glogs – with this gallery students can refer back to a teacher’s glog after the lesson or while doing homework. Students could use this tool to demonstrate their learning, advertise an event, or to persuade their audience. Students can share their glogs with each other and add their own comments.

Glogster Profile

Teachers can set up classes to manage students, projects for students to complete, and then assess the finished glogs for students. With the premium membership teachers can also access students accounts to manage glogs and progress, message students in classes, and assess students’ published glogs.

Gregg v Georgia Glog

The resource of Glogster can be used to help students improve their ability to communicated with visual aides while focusing the text to just the most important information. It can also be used to help students with difficulty with verbal communication practice and improve their verbal skills.