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.
What a great idea, Ally! I look forward to reading about your experiences!
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