The tool I have decided to look at in depth is the Glogster. On a personal level I found discovering Glogster one of the most exhausting as my computer is old the pages didnt want to load at times. I also originally signed up for the wrong type of Glogster account so it wouldn't allow me to publish my Glogster after I'd spent hours creating it. I asked at a collaborate session about it and the lecturers told me about signing up for the free teacher one. After all my many hours of frusteration I started creating a Glogster. I tried to somehow embed it in here but had no luck. I also decided to research the applications of a Glogster a little bit further and this is what I came up with.
The internet no longer simply allows learners to explore and discover their own learning pathways, but it allows learners to construct their own content and add to the online database of resources in the form of multimedia-based UGC (user generated content) built on the premise of sharing and socializing. One such application built on this premise is the free–for-use web-based interactive digital poster publishing tool Glogster.
Glogster EDU is a private, safe platform for students and teachers to create online electronic posters(Glogs) to display their thoughts, interests, ideas and understandings. It uses a number of tools to incorporate text, audio, video, links, animations and images. Glogster Edu, as a teaching tool, can be integrated into core subject areas of the curriculum, differentiated instruction, and used as alternative assessments. Glogs can be populated with a variety of text boxes, graphics, animations and frames available in the Glogster gallery. Images, video and audio files can be uploaded directly from student or school computers. Students can use webcams and microphones to record audio, take snapshots and video to be saved directly into their Glog. Users can build their own library of images, video and sound clips to be accessed easily for use in future Glogs. Students can also use Glogster to create a dynamic digital portfolio of the content that they've published to sites like School Tube .
Working cooperatively and communicatively with such tools can also lead to the implementation of constructivist learning approaches in the classroom that are built upon the real life experience of students. When this occurs stronger connections can be made between learning content and the students world, and as such, the collaborative creation of knowledge, and the sharing and dissemination of that knowledge becomes the core of the learning process.
A free-for use web-based poster publishing platform audio, images, and video can all be imported into a Glogster, or linked to or grabbed from a webcam feed, while text titles, stickers, and speech bubbles can be created on the glogster page directly. Various effects such as frames, shadows, font size changes and color schemes can be implemented as well. Space on the Glogster webpage (glog) can be used freely, meaning items can be placed or replaced, rotated, overlaid, and resized. In addition, all content can be linked to other glogs or other web pages or content around the internet. Content applied and learner material developed in such a way allows students to construct learning in an active and meaningful manner, and associate the lesson to the real world and their own lives.
This publishing tool promotes cooperation with other individuals when working in teams on a digital poster project, and can lead to effective classroom networking for communication and collaborative work. Such small-group interaction establishes co-operative learning opportunities.
Once digital posters have been developed with the publishing
tool Glogster they can then be embedded into class wikis, or blogs, or shared
among classmates added to the system as friends. Glogster
allows for the organization of media and widgets to form a collage that can be
embedded into any web page or viewed stand-alone from the Glogster website
Essentially, through one piece of work, students can present
both their oral and written skills whilst at the same time showing off their
creative talent.
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