Week 5 - Glogster

Above is my first glog creation. The process was more time consuming than the other two tools in Group 3. The tutorial helped me out with embedding it onto my blog which I have found the most difficult with the blog. It was fairly easy to create and embed images and videos from YouTube. It seemed as though there was plenty of advertising on the pages leading up to creating my glog and on the glog homepage itself. If you are willing to pay the money then you can create glogs for your classroom that is kept for private use. On my glog I decided to focus on Mathematics, Year 2, gathering information and creating block graphs. This is how I would set up the homepage of the glog for parents to help as well. There is a video embedded on the page for parents to view on the steps in creating a block graph. That way they are encouraged to help out their son/daughter with some ideas on what other sources of information we could gather to create another block graph. Glogster could definitely work in a classroom environment. The teacher would need to first spend time creating the page, all of the student's pages and changing their passwords if necessary. Compared to the other two tools it would be more time consuming but it could be more beneficial once it has been set up. Children are able to post their work on the own page within the classroom. The teacher will be able to keep track of each student's glog, their progress throughout the year, who needs to be extended and who needs more work on the topic. The great thing about glogster is it could be used by more than one classroom, teachers will be able to collaborate ideas towards the glog as a team project for their students.