Glogster

Presenter: Diane Shirk Contact: dshirk@warwicksd.org Session 1

__Description of Presentation__ Glogster is a creative dynamic, and innovative digital outlet that captures learner’s excitement for online creations. It keeps learners engaged in course content and makes teaching and learning more fun. Educators like that Glogster’s EDU registration provides a private and safe platform that can be monitored directly by the teacher. Students view Glogster as a fun, imaginative, and powerful learning experience, which fosters independent creative self expression on class projects.

__Presentation Resources__ I began the year by teaching the students the skill of creating a glog. I started with something simple. They created a glog that introduced themselves to the class. They seemed to enjoy doing this project and were learning how to create the glog. The same process can be used to create any theme related glogs. The following link includes the directions for the Introduction Glog. I have also included the example I created for the students look at. [|Teacher Example]

The next assignment I tried was to have the students take their vocabulary words, find pictures that represented the word and make a vocabulary glog. The following is the rubric I use to grade the student glogs. I have also included some student examples of the vocabulary glogs. [|Vocabulary Example] [|Another Example]