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February 2012
What are the challenges for educators today?
• Teachers are challenged to excite and motivate their students.• Students are “digital natives” who live and breathe technology.• Many teaching and learning methods continue to adhere to
traditional paper/poster/textbook models. • Students using traditional methods are not engaged in the
learning process.
The solution: Provide an interactive online learning platform for teachers to engage their students.
Introducing Glogster EDU!
Glogster was inspired by the worldwide poster culture of teenagers. The idea was to recreate their physical bedroom walls in digital format
with multimedia resources. This digital poster is called a GLOG.
Glogster 101
Glog
Girl‘s room
What is a Glog?
A Glog is an interactive digital poster containing:
Glog creation
tool
Glogster EDU for teachersThe simplicity and ease of creating a Glog was attractive to the
educational community in the US.
It was as easy for teachers to prepare a lesson with a Glog as it wasfor teenagers to put together posters of pop stars.
But educators’ demands for a secure and advertisement-free environment for their students required a new, separate platform.
Hence: Glogster EDU.
A simple teacher management system was implemented:
Classroom set up Student portfolio creation Project creation Presentation tools Grading and commenting on student Glogs
Assign tasks
Thoroughly explain the topic
Attach additional information for students
Give a due date
How can a teacher use Glogster EDU? Projects
Homework Creating lesson plans Classroom demonstration tool Resource sharing Professional development
Benefits for teachers Teachers can transform tradition curriculum into CREATIVE and FUN
lessons
Creating Glogs is ENGAGING, MOTIVATING and INSPIRING and enhances students’ digital literacy
Glogs can be saved in the database and viewed and/or UPDATED anytime, saving teachers time
Glog storage is PERMANENT and retrieval is INSTANTANEOUS
Glogster EDU provides a SECURE environment tailored to students and educators
Teachers have FULL CONTROL over student profiles
24/7 help support
search the internet to find relevant data (text, images, video, audio)
recognize and process only reliable and up-to-date information
give structure and composition to the information in order to create a visually appealing end product
Glog projects
Glogs are the perfect end product for any lesson or project assignment. Glog projects require students to:
Teacher & student interaction
It does not end with Glog creation: Students enjoy presenting their work to the class / audience
Students learn to defend their work and answer related questions Glogs can be shared with classmates, teachers, and parents
Student benefits Students find learning FUN, FUN, FUN
Great for PROJECT-BASED LEARNING (independent research, data assessment, Glog creation, presentation of their work)
STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY improves students’ IT skills
Utilize CREATIVITY as well as LOGIC
Excellent for students with SPECIAL NEEDS
Permanent Glog PORTFOLIO
Effective DISTANCE LEARNING tool
PRIVATE and SAFE environment
Over 8,475,000 registered users
worldwide
Where are we now?
652,000 teachers7,823,000 students
11% of US teachers use Glogster EDU
60% users in the USA
Glogster EDU highlights
Easy and fun to use Lessons are never boring; exciting for teachers and
students Scalable for students of all ages Inspires motivation and curiosity Engages both logic and creativity Encourages verbal skills Instills feelings of achievement and pride Glogs are permanent and can be updated anytime Constant improvements to platform Eco friendly
Can Glogster EDU make a difference in your classroom?
Glogster EDU is yours!
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