Glogster


 * media type="custom" key="25614918" align="right"What is [|Glogster]?
 * Glogster is a web-based application that utilizes a very easy to use drag and drop graphical user interface to allow students to link, embed, and upload multimedia resources including files, videos, photos, and audio files to support their chosen theme or subject in a digital poster. Think of a Glog as a graphic blog.
 * Glogster allows students to creatively express their knowledge and skills in a fun interactive environment.
 * ==Why we use Glogster in the Reading / Language Arts Block==
 * Glogster addresses the needs of visual learners. Using Glogster in the reading language arts block adds a visual element to reading comprehension and the writing process.
 * The visual component of Glogster allows students to extend reading connections.
 * Glogster assists struggling readers and writers to communicate their thoughts and ideas through a visuals in addition to oral and written forms of communication.
 * Students love creating these interactive multimedia web posters, and the use of this tool almost always guarantees increased student engagement with their reading material or writing assignment.
 * Students enjoy publishing blogs. They take great pride in the finished products that reveal layers of depth in thinking and creativity that are not evident in a traditional writing assignment especially when a clear rubric is provided.
 * Glogs allow students to exercise a great deal of creativity providing a wide variety of backgrounds and texts, as well as the freedom to arrange artifacts in any way they wish.
 * Glogster is aligned with National Educational Technology Standards and 21st century skills and provides an excellent means of integrating technology standards and objectives with core curricular standards.
 * Glogster promotes differentiated instruction through a balance between acquisition of factual knowledge, the mastery of concepts and skills, and the imaginative use of multimedia and relevant Internet resource
 * The use of Glogs in assessment encourage independent creative expression and problem solving.