Uses
in the classroom
Glogster in many ways
filled the gap in what I was looking for with last week’s assignment. Gliffy
was a great tool, and let me organize a mind map well, but it lacked the total
awesome amount of interactivity I was hoping for that Glogster provides. With
this tool, students can take the typical science fair to a whole new and really
cool level. Be gone horrible paper mache volcano. Better sell your stocks in
the dollar store, because Bristol board’s day has come. Glogster allows
students to embed videos, text, pictures or animations in a poster oriented
display that’s interactive. The ideas for teaching and learning are simply
endless. Teachers can create interactive Glogsters to help present lecture
material, or students can create them to demonstrate learning. They are quite
literally applicable to any assignment or learning experience you can think of.
Except maybe gym, but that’s not cool anyway.
Issues
to Consider
Glogster is a plugin
nightmare. I’m muttering to myself right now thinking about how many plugins
for browsers I’d need to install and update on my schools network to make this
thing work. Schools often have policies installed on their networks to prevent
plugins from being installed by evil students with masses of virus ridden
toolbars. Like most multimedia, the teacher will need to do a few dry runs to
make sure the computers work with this kind of software. Also, I noticed when
using Glogster that it wasn’t smooth, even on my religiously powerful i7
hardware; this might be a slowdown causing frustration for some users.
Copyright
· All graphics are
provided free to users by Glogster.com
·
All
multimedia created in this presentation are original creations of Ian Thomson
with original sources cited
· Citation for Paper:
Yue, C. L., Bjork, E. L., & Bjork, R. A. (2013). Reducing verbal redundancy
in multimedia learning: An undesired desirable difficulty . Journal of
Educational Psychology , 105(2), 266-277. doi: 10.1037/a0031971
