Glogster

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Expert and Supporter: Heather Wax

Glogster is a poster creation program. You sign up for an account (in the EDUCATION VERSION - beware, glogster has a non-educational version that we strongly suggest you do not use in your classroom for various reason.) When you sign up for an account, it will ask you how many accounts you want. You can never have too many accounts, and you can't add more later - so go for the maximum, 200 accounts.

When you set up accounts, it sends an email to your inbox with account names and wacko passwords for each of those user names. You can't change the password, and neither can the students, so the best idea is to cut and paste the thing into a spreadsheet and then mail merge with Word to make mailing labels....I mean, 3x5 cards....that you can pass out to students that has their wild password and username that you have assigned to them. (And yes, this is why you have a tech coach! ;)

When students are done creating their glogster poster, they can send you a message through glogster's internal mail service, saying simply "I'm done" (I borrowed this idea from Don Dobson, btw...who figured that out.) and then when you click on their name, up pops their poster.

Use [] to create a rubric for your project - that is, after you've thought of an appropriate project. Or maybe, you've had kids come up with the project and maybe they even make the rubric for each other.....the sky is the limit here. First time round, probably you're going to take a more leading role - so - make your glogster account, and then dream up a cool lesson plan and post it below.

An example from Don Dodson's class can be seen if you look way way down his blog entries at []

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PS - Yes, we know that Glogster can be slow sometimes. But, we have found some really interesting "back doors" to get Glogster to go a whole lot faster. First acquaint yourself with the program, and then ask for the tricks!

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