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"Glogster EDU is the leading global education platform for the creative expression of knowledge and skills in the classroom and beyond. We empower educators and students with the technology to create GLOGS - online multimedia posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more"
Glogster is an online tool for creating posters. The posters can contain videos, podcasts, links to the internet, and personalized pictures, to name a few. I signed up for the free EDU basic account that allows you to sign up 50 students under your account. In order to sign up for the Premium account, which allows you to sign up 200 students per year, you would have to pay an additional $99 per year.
Perhaps the Premium account would be better, after all, with the free account there were many buttons that looked like options, like the Draw or Data option, where if you clicked on them it didn't tell you that you couldn't access it with your account it just, rather annoyingly, kept leading you back to the Premium page where you could purchase the premium package.
Benefits:
- Allows you to create an online poster that you can add multimedia to, such as videos and pod-casts.
- Nice alternative to the traditional collage poster.
- Relatively simple drag and drop features (although I couldn't always get the video option to work).
- EDU basic is free
- Needs some video tutorials that would get a person started.
- It is a social network where others can comment on their posters. As long as they are in the EDU account that you set up for them there is a low risk of them being exposed to inappropriate material, but on the main site (not the EDU part) the glogs are open for anyone to create and many of the glogs are inappropriate or do contain some nudity (even though they are not suppose to).
- Being a social network site could take away from the learning and have the students distracted from the task at hand.
- I wasn't able to get all the video's that I wanted linked and there seemed to be a huge lack of support or resources to be able to aid a person with any troubles or errors that may occur along the way.
- There wasn't a search button to be able to search others glogs. For example if I wanted to search if there were other glogs on hair that wasn't an option.
Thumbs up or Thumbs down:
Before I would be able to give this site a thumbs up I would have to do a few small trials with it. For now it is a thumbs down. There seemed to be too many glitches and lack of support for me to completely support this tool. It is a great idea and perhaps the Premium $99 version is better, but the basic left me a bit wanting in terms of all that it promised to be able to do.
Others reviews of Glogster:
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/website-reviews/glogster
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9840488-2.html
http://www.appappeal.com/app/glogster/
As always I have created a project with the tool. This one is about the layers of the hair. The video link at the bottom doesn't work. That was the trouble I was having with attaching video. ENJOY!
The fact that it may not load properly with the embed function is another one of my pet peeves about this site. Just in case here is the web link: http://biemrac.edu.glogster.com/layers-of-hair/
1 comment:
Good review, Racquel. I hadn't heard of Glogster (and I'm not going to run out to try it, based on your review). It sounds like a terrific idea though -- one that I can think of a dozen ways to use in my own classrooms. Thanks for sharing this. Now, maybe I can find a good piece of software that can do this!
BTW: the omission of a decent "embed" approach is a really glaring problem with a program like this!
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