BP4_Glogster

This Web 2.0 tool is amazing! GLOGSTER!!! I am always looking for a new an exciting way to get my class engaged in creating book reports. I come up with all sorts of ideas on what they can do to make it fun. We create posters, cereal boxes, power points, we even make character reports out of potatoes…but with Glogster they can create a poster that is a multi-media presentation. We were studying a non-fiction story this week about the Saguaro Cactus in the southwest United States. I created a poster to illustrate this plant. I was able to pull up pictures I had found on the internet that showed vivid pictures of this enormous cactus and the animals that inhabit them. On my poster I was able to embed a YouTube video that showed a person standing next to the spiny giant. This gave the students a better understanding of how tall this plant grows to be. I was able to add text and facts about the cactus that we could then go over in class. The students loved to see my work and were eager to know about the website.

            The best part was how simple this site was to use. It was extremely user friendly and I even let my students play with the site. They thought it was pretty cool too. Glogster is free to join all you need to do is sign up. There is “premium” package that allows you to manage your students and their accounts. This would be a great way to have your students do research and put together a presentation that is not only informative, visually engaging for the other students and great for the environment. The students could build a library of projects that they could look back at over the years instead of throwing the away once the project was sent 

home.

Here is an example of my work!

Setting up my theme and title

Adding an image

Finding a video

Adding a sticky note.

Final Product