Friday, April 27, 2012

The educational affordance of a GLOGSTER


Features of Glogster
Affordance
The ability to create posters featuring different types of media. 
Encourages higher-level thinking and allows to students the ability to be creative.
Ability to add text.
Students can add text to the poster and choose different types of format to display information.
Ability to add video.
Students can personalize their glogster by adding video, sound, or pictures.  .

Ability to collaborate
Students have the ability to work individually or collaboratively on a project.  Each member of the group can log on, at their convenience, and add to the project. Teachers also have the ability to collaborate with their students.
Ability to comment
Students have the ability to add comments on other glogs.
Safe environment
Safe closed environment that the teacher has control of.
Exciting Projects
Students can create poster to highlight information from a book.  They can create interactive poems and have classmates comment on them.  They can create an advertisement of a product.  The possibilities are endless.

3 comments:

  1. I can't figure out how to post it... I will keep trying...

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  2. Ok... I figured it out! http://www.glogster.com/jenflave1/wishlist-glog-by-jenflave1/g-6lir6ldsjr3hla8gkovnea0

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