Glogster

Today, I explored www.glogster.com/edu.  It is a site that helps you and your students create glogs.  Glogs are online multimedia posters.  Though this website, students can create posters that have text, photos, videos, graphics, and sounds.  I think this site could give students a look into a new window of creativity, rather than just doing an assignment with pen and paper.

Glogster could be used for many things.  Students can create many glogs on a variety of subjects. I am going to focus in on some subjects for second grade.  Students could create a simple autobiography poster.  For science, students could construct a poster about what animals (and people) need in order to survive or what type of animals live in the rain forest.  In language arts, students could create a poster about their favorite book and why it is their favorite.

There are many other ways glogster can be used.  These were just a couple ideas I had thought of on my own.  Hopefully, I can use this tool in the classroom sometime soon and post some of the students glogs on my blog.

The Journey Begins!

This is my first entry on blogger.  I am new to the blog so you may have to bare with me as I share my progress with you over the course of twelve weeks.

I met with Michelle today.  She will be teaching me a lot about technology and how to incorporate it into the classroom.  A lot was thrown at me today, but I am up for the challenge.  She mentioned a few things such as Glogster, Photostory 3, and Podcasting. I am not familiar with any of these, but I am here to learn so I will be doing a little bit of exploring before August 30. 

I felt a little worried going into today's meeting, but after meeting Michelle and others, my mind was put at ease.  Everybody was so welcoming and it seems like a very positive environment to work in.  I am ready to begin this task and I hope to show how much I have learned over time.