Take Posters to the Next Level with Glogster

Glogster is another Cool Tool for Teachers looking to spice up their own presentations or student reports. You can access Glogster online or with their free app. This is another example of a wonderful application which used to be free but no longer is. However, it is so utterly easy to use and the results look so polished and professional, that it may be well worth a little cash outlay to some teachers.

My sample glog (yes, that's what you call the interactive media posters produced on Glogster!) is about Digital Citizenship and staying safe online. I could show this example to students when I'm talking to them about internet safety. Or, I could show them my poster and then give them an internet safety topic to research create their own glog on. This is an easy way for a group to collaborate because each member could be working on his own subtopic and then share his writing or images, etc with the group and one person could quickly upload these to glogster. 

You can upload images or video and select a variety of text styles and graphics. The app uses something called "Webpicker" where you can slide videos and images from the internet to your glog. It would be ideal if a url source code could be automatically generated when you took something from the internet, they way it is in the Explain Everything app.  When you are finished its easy to share the final product, there are options to share on Facebook, Twitter, email, text, export as an image or generate a URL.  

Glogster makes it easy for students to create sharp looking and inviting posters on a variety of devices. This is also a great tool for students to show their parents, because it is easy to see business uses for this as well.