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Glogster

Stacey Shubitz

I recently read a post on Raising Reading and Writers that talked about Glogster.  I hadn’t heard of Glogster, which is a tool for creating virtual posters, and therefore checked it out immediately.  This is a site that allows you to create a poster through text, images, video, and music.  Once you create your own poster you can share it with others on your website, blog, or on the social networking site of your choice.

Once I clicked around a little more, I discovered there’s an educator page on Glogster.  Here’s more about the uses of Glogster, as per the company’s educator page:

  1. A creative, dynamic, and innovative digital outlet that captures learner’s excitement for online creations, keeps learners engaged in course content, and makes teaching and learning more fun.
  2. A private and safe platform, monitored directly by teachers. Teachers control all the activities of their learners.
  3. A valuable teaching tool that integrates diverse core subjects including math, science, history, art, photography, music and more for individual learner portfolios, unique alternative assessments, and differentiated instructional activities.

Retrieved from http://edu.glogster.com/#why-glogster-edu on 8/29/10.

If you have technology in your classroom, then consider going beyond the old-fashioned posters that help kids introduce themselves to one another.  Consider going online and having your students create virtual posters on Glogster.  (Click here to sign up for a free Glogster account for your class.)

Published by Stacey Shubitz

I am a literacy consultant who focuses on writing workshop. I've been working with K-6 teachers and students since 2009. Prior to that, I was a fourth and fifth-grade teacher in New York City and Rhode Island. I'm the author of Craft Moves (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016) and the co-author of Jump Into Writing (Zaner-Bloser, 2021), Welcome to Writing Workshop (Stenhouse Publishers, 2019), and Day By Day (Stenhouse, 2010). I live in Central Pennsylvania with my husband and children. In my free time, I enjoy swimming, doing Pilates, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and reading novels.

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  5. I am blessed to be 1 to 1 in my 8th grade classroom. I discovered glogster last year over Christmas break and introduced it to my students shortly after. I used it first in my Religion class (I teach in a Catholic school) and had the students create glogs to advertise the Early Church. I’ve also used it in my ILA classroom by having the students create glogs to show information they learned (when I teach The Book Thief, there are different topics which arise in the book that I have the students explore, such as accordions, and they were able to use glogster to showcase what they learned). Additionally, I’ve had the students use glogster as a book report alternative. I’ve had them create glogs to analyze books, pick songs which match the theme of a book, and describe characters. I love glogster because it eliminates poster board!

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