Glogster is a website that allows you to set up an account for you to create your own page exactly to your taste. The account is completely free and is used by many for both private and educational pages.
This website could work particularly well as the base to a project or assignment. Computers and technology are growing ever more popular within education. By setting a task to be completed via this website you could encourage children to use this resource for personal use as well as educational purposes.
If you were to set a project in an educational setting this would allow pupils to research their own work, which can include text, images, videos and data. I actually created my own page to show how easy and informative this resource can be. I based my page on the slum of Kibera in Nairobi, this is a particular interest of mine that I enjoyed researching about and found out some interesting facts whilst researching. The link to my page is :
Glogster actually has its own link to Google, You Tube, Facebook etc to access pictures and videos without having to separately save or copy and paste in order to appear on your glog. You can edit the set up of your page, include various texts and special effects. Glogster allows you to save and preview your page before publishing it, you can also share your page with your Facebook and Twitter users. The option is there to keep your page private if you wish to do so.
Glogster could definitely be an effective tool to use in the classroom and a way to encourage pupils to use computers on a day to day basis. Children could create their own page about whatever they like to have as a hobby at home. The good thing about Glogster is that you can access it from anywhere, whether at school or at home you can always add to it.
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