Glogster

Glogster is a great tool for students to use to create posters.  Glogsters are the new posters, allowing for them to be interactive. It's a great way to set up a page of resources for students to learn about a particular topic that is being taught in the classroom. It provides links to various websites, key words to take note of, informative videos, and an overall explanation about the topic at hand.  For example, I did my Glogster on Going Green.

 It includes a link to a website that informs the student how to reduce, reuse, and recycle various products and the importance of doing so. The student can listen to a song while perusing the glogster, which I think makes learning more fun for them. I included an inspirational video about how everyone's acts have a lasting impact on the environment and how rapidly the earth is changing due to global warming.  It educates the student on how they can help reverse the damage by planting trees, riding bikes, and using our resources without depleting them.  The glogster also has a list of books from the library with the Dewey decimal codes so that the students can easily locate them. The water drop links to a website detailing how to recycle and reuse water. The gift tag links to a UConn website that describes how we can conserve water and electricity. The orange thought bubble links to a site that describes 50 ways to conserve energy, including activities as easy as changing lightbulbs to compact fluorescent light bulbs. The globe links to General Electric's Ecomagination site describing programs around the globe that are contributing to energy conservation and committed to going green. The solar panel connects to energy.gov, providing more information about the benefits of solar power. The 'go green' footprint links to a carbon footprint calculator that allows students to calculate their own impact on the earth. And finally, a video about how one can reduce their carbon footprint. So many different resources on one page! Glogster is an amazing tool to use in the classroom.