Glogster

Anyone using this? Can you share what ideas and projects you have used this for with students?
Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Aruba Lady on October 3, 2008 at 10:58pm

Hi there! New to classroom 2.0, but thought I'd share that I used glogster as a way to manage a wikispace with lots of jumping off points for one particular topic. For example I did an All About Me wikispace with my class and embedded a glogster page onto that main page. Then created links to each text sticker on that page. One of the links would go to a "Favorite Book" or "Favorite Ice Cream" page. The kids loved the visuals and found it easier to navigate through than the table of contents on the side of the wikispace.

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Permalink Reply by Kelley Irish on October 4, 2008 at 7:43am

Aruba Lady I love that idea can you give us a link to that page so we can see it?

Nancy You are the best I love see good examples-they inspire me! Those pages on Oskar Schindler were powerful. What a great way to use Glogster-very powerful.

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Permalink Reply by Darcie Priester on October 4, 2008 at 4:32pm

Welcome to classroom 2.0 Aruba Lady! I joined about a year ago and am still learning things! However, I can't get on the website from my school, so it takes me a while to find time to get on at home, what with my other duties.

I also like your wiki idea. I can see where students, especially younger ones would find it easier to use and find the links easily. This could be a good activity for the beginning of the school year to get to know your students, or for a biography project or Famous Americans.

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Permalink Reply by Meagan N. on October 28, 2008 at 7:56pm

If anyone else is using this and successfully has student accounts going...could you please tell me how? I want to use this with my English kids doing reports on civil rights...and although it says I have my 16 student accounts, I can't figure out how to actually use them. Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on October 29, 2008 at 6:06am

Contact their "help" people, I'm sure they can get you set up.

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Permalink Reply by Neil Stephenson on April 19, 2009 at 9:14pm

When you sign up as a teacher, Glogster asks you how many student accounts you want. Then you should receive an email with you login names and passwords. Hope that helps!

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Permalink Reply by Irene Hopp on October 29, 2008 at 8:04am

What a cool tool this is!!! After making my own glog to find out how this works, I have lots of ideas on how this might be used in the classroom. One teacher and I spoke of having kids post key points in content with responses and visuals to enhance the content. I can also see this as an alternative to creating brochures with specific content. We see many possibilities. That you!

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on October 29, 2008 at 8:07am

As I remember, I think Glogster prints...which is a plus in the elementary classroom with the Web 2.0 tools.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Carls on January 21, 2009 at 8:13am

I was just trying to use Glogster EDU for a teacher as well, but didn't see how I can add their students accounts. Did anyone figure this out? I did send them an e-mail to ask.
Thanks,

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Permalink Reply by Vicky S on January 29, 2009 at 8:50pm

If I remember correctly you do have to email them the number of accounts and they generate the student IDs - that wasn't ideal for me since my students have the same (or similar) ID on all accounts but it worked.

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Permalink Reply by Jill B on January 21, 2009 at 5:01pm

I just made a glogster where I uploaded my students podcasts. The posters theme was the Revolutionary war. My students had to write a script on a event in a historical fiction novel that they read. Then they turned it into a podcast. I put the podcasts onto the glogster poster and then embedded it into our wiki.

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Permalink Reply by Darcie Priester on January 29, 2009 at 7:22pm

Anyone having issues embedding glogs into blogs, websites, wikis, etc.? I have contacted glogster on many accounts and they were trying to help, when I got a message today that the problem must be with blogger.com. I don't buy that as the same problem is also happening in iweb and dreamweaver. The problem is the glog takes over the entire page and won't shrink down. I had this work correctly once on my blog, but can not get it to work again. Any ideas?