I am constantly thinking of ways to try to get my teachers hooked into technology. Technology cannot be seen as just one more thing on their already busy plates.
- Technology has to be seen as fun…
- Technology should help teachers celebrate the successes of their students
- Technology should help everyone is our communities stay connected; parent to teachers to administrators to parents to teachers to administrators and back again.
I’m sure others may know about this, but I just stumbled upon it through my PLN on Twitter. Glogs are just one more way to get teachers involved. At the beginning of the school year, teachers were asking the question: How do I get my Publisher newsletter on my blog? “Our” answer was very simple: Yes, you can get your newsletter on your blog, but you shouldn’t as Jeff Utecht put it. We were trying to get our teachers to blog more frequently with the information that they normally would’ve put into a newsletter. I recognize though that it’s not easy for many to jump into blogging and make a clean break from their traditional newsletter. Maybe, just maybe, I glog would be a good transition for them. They are still able to create a newsletter of sorts, but the tech is just a bit more involved. What do you think?
I helped out my daughter’s Kindergarten teacher and made a glog of their first class Publishing Party. I can see possibilities for glogs with teachers and students. And by the way, my daughter and I did have FUN creating our first glog!
This is cross posted on Some Tech Sense.
Amanda DeCardy is an Apple Distinguished Educator and National Board Certified Teacher currently working as a Technology Integrationist at Shanghai American School, Pudong Campus. She has worked in international schools in China, Saudi Arabia and Japan, serving as a classroom teacher, a Professional Development Coordinator, an ATLAS Coordinator and most recently as Technology Integrationist. Ms. DeCardy has presented at EARCOS and NESA conferences and has taught graduate coursework through California State University-Northridge. She a mother of two girls: Madeline, age six and Amelia, age two. Her writings can be found on her two blogs, www.sometechsense.com and www.maddiesminute.com
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I agree Glogs can be used for education. The kids like them and it can be used by older as well as younger students.
How did you shrink the glog down to post? I haven’t had any luck doing that.
I think there are many educational uses for Glogs. They are certainly great for adding fun and functionality to wiki pages. Check out http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/ to see how a Glog has been embedded on the home page of a wiki to make the links more engaging. You can also use a Glog to turn a wiki page into a “launcher” with linked pictures that can take learners to other websites. This is particularly useful for early learners or for individuals who are developmentally delayed.
I was playing around with Glogster, and while I agree that there is potential for jazzing up blogs and creating cool posters for classrooms, the graphics are a bit questionable.
(Look at the “Punk” category)
Here is one I created:http://micwalker.glogster.com/Mikes-first-Glog/
This is a great tool. I was able to make this poster in about 30 minutes. Glogs has some potential!
http://bethstill.glogster.com/glog-dmns/
Great post, I hadn’t used glogster before but can definitely see the educational use. Have you seen flip.com? I ran across it while checking out youtubelive and they are collaborating for tonight’s youtubelive broadcast. I don’t know much about glogster but Flip allows you to create several posters that can be meshed together to create one ‘Flipbook’. You can then take those Flipbooks and embed them in a bunch of different applications.
They have a video demo of the service if you are interested in checking it out. Just another free web service to test out
http://www.flip.com/tutorial/index.html
I think Glogs are a great tool for learning. Just today I worked with a group of 9th grade students who used Glogster as a reviewing tool before their final exam. They created a Glog for a person they have studied this year. I LOVED it. It allows them to be creative and for the most part, due to the setup by the teacher, they can’t just copy and paste the content from Google. They actually have to transform the information into something meaningful for them.