My Glogster

Glogster is a tool that I have worked with previously. I only discovered it this year when creating my technology assignment. I think it is a fantastic tool that should most definitely be used within the classroom which is why it my choice of tool to reflect on this week.

I love the way Glogster is set out like an online poster which allows you to write text, embed videos, hyperlinks, audio and images. I think it is great that students can create bubbl.us sheets and attach them to their posters. This tool is an extremely engaging tool for students to work with and it has options attached which are almost endless. It allows students to become as creative as they like online. Glogster can be used within the classroom for the creation of assessments in the form of an interactive poster. It can be used by teachers to create units of work whereby students can access activities related to the unit topic. These activities can be created by the teacher and students can add to them as they learn and explore. It is also a great tool for students to work collaboratively with, as they can access their group poster at home and add to it. Glogster is a safe tool as it can only be accessed by the users with a password. Students can use this tool to then present group projects and it allows for those students who don’t feel comfortable to talk in front of the class to prerecord their part of the presentation and embed within their group Glog. This wonderful tool allows all the levels of the SAMR model to be used. Students could use it as a substitute to reading which would fall within the substitution level. It could be used within the augmentation level whereby students could read information, but also be able to edit or improve this information. Glogster is a great tool for task design which would be considered as the modification level. However Glogster would be utilised to its full potential within the redefinition level. As students could create tasks which include multimedia tools as well as information containing hyperlinks, this type of creation was previously inconceivable with technology.