Glogster: Multimedia Poster

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Activity Description

Students create an "About Me" glog - a multimedia online poster/scrapbook page - to introduce themselves to the class. Students can include images, text, audio, and video of/about themselves, their native countries, hobbies, interests, work, career or educational goals, family, etc.

Preparation

1. Make sure the site is not blocked at your school. YouTube or other embedded videos on a glog may be blocked depending on firewall settings at your school. Check these in advance if you intend to use.
2. Be sure your students have an e-mail account. Help them get a free one if necessary using Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, or any one of a number of other free accounts.
3. Practice using the site yourself before having students use it.
4. Demonstrate the site and provide written instructions.

How-To

1. Explain the assignment to students, showing a sample glog.
2. Students write a script (if video will be recorded of them speaking) and/or text.
3. They then gather or create media: images, videos, audio, URLs.
4. Demonstrate the site using the printed instructons (see the Glogster Directions handout).

Teacher Tips

• Students do need an e-mail account to register for the site.
• Provide feedback on writing and speaking before students create their glogs.
• With a Glogster account, students can save and edit at a later time their glogs. Most glogs will not be finished within one sitting. Allow at least an hour for a very simple glog.
• Make sure that students understand that personal information (addresses, phone numbers, etc.) should not be posted on their glogs.
• Not appropriate for students with very low technical/computer abilities.

More Ways

Here are a number of projects for which Glogster would be appropriate:

• A dedication
• A glog about a favorite music group or singer
• A movie poster or review
• A book report or review
• A personal topic, such as a report on a vacation, an autobiography, a narration or description
• A public service announcement
• Any type of traditional report
• An illustrated poem
• An informational commercial or advertisement for a made-up product or service or for a school, educational program, or class
• The history of a product, place, or person

For more ideas and to see the potential of glogging, browse other's glogs at the bottom of the page after you login.

Program Areas

• ABE: Adult Basic Education

Levels

• Low
• Intermediate
• High
• All Levels

Documents

• ef0d899e-5056-a629-c8f1bf7a90c04b0b FINAL.pdf - Glogster Directions

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