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= = = = = = = = = **What is a Glog?** = = =

It’s a web 2.0 tool that allows teachers and students to create online posters, a.k.a., Glogs. Glogs can have audio, video, animations, still images, text, graphics, etc. Whatever you can do with paper, you can do better with a Glog!

=**How can Glogs Enhance Instruction/Learning?**= = =

Teachers can use Glogs as class websites, web quests, as a place to showcase student work, instructions for an assignment, to list websites for a research project, etc. Students can use Glogs for biographies, reviews, highlighting a topic or subject, event, idea, concept, experiment, problem, person, cause/effect, etc. It gives students and teachers the ability to use 21st Century skills in the classroom.

= **Where to Get Started:** =

Go to [|www.edu.glogster.com] and register for a free account. Make sure you include the EDU it's been created specifically for educational purposes. Follow the instructions to create your profile. Add up to 50 students for free. When you add students, you will receive and email with your students usernames and passwords. Students must go to the “first log in link” to log in for the first time. HINT – You can either go to the first log in link for your students before they ever log in to speed up the log in process during class, or I've also printed out students user information and cut it up into little slips to distribute during class. If you do cut out the slips for the students, know that they sometime type the URL in wrong and they migh not be able to log in.

= **Create a Glog:** =

Simply click on //create a new glog// and Glog away!

=** Tips: **=

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=Samples=

[|Echinoderms] This Glog was created based on a 7th Grade Student's Poster that was created in a Life Science Class

[|Compound Words] Created by a 2nd Grade Teacher, this is an example of how teachers can use Glogster to showcase students work and teach a new tech skill.

[|Pond Animals] An example of how Glogs can be used as a product and teaching tool for others. Notice how the student cited where the photos were retrieved.

[|El Salvador] An example of how a glog can be used as a product based on researching a Country.

[|GlogsterEDU] An example of how Glogster can be used to enhance instruction.

[|Categories] GlogsterEDU Categorizes it's educational Glogs so you can browse examples of contenct specific Glogs.

[|Diary of a Wimpy Kid] An example of how a book report can turn into a Glog

=Lesson Plans=

[|Three Cups of Tea Lesson Plan] An excellent resource that includes the lesson plan, rubric, and a handout for using Glogster

[|Literature Lesson Plan used with 11th and 12th Graders] Scroll to the bottom of the page to find this lesson plan and more

[|Getting to Know Glogster]

[|Creating Historical Timelines with Glogster]

[|Educator Resource Library] Scroll to the bottom of the page and download the Glogster Educator Resource Library. It includes multiple lesson plans, rubrics, and links to media.

=Glogster Tutorial= The following tutorials are from Jodi Tompkin's CoolTools4integration Wiki



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