For my self selected project I created a Glogster that I could use in my classroom or have my students use in my classroom. This would fall under a digital text. A Glogster, is a program where you can create and make your own posters of whatever you would like. You can design them with the colors you want, you can add music, video, and pictures. I have never used Glogster before, but after using it for this project, I will definitely use it again! I think that it is a GREAT tool to in corporate into my classroom as well.
For my Glogster, I made it related to my Health discipline. I made a Drug poster that I could use as an example for what I would like my students to make. When I first started making my Glog, I had trouble because I had never used it before. It took me a few tries on experimental glogs before I made my final one. I did a few experimental glogs to just mess around with the system until I was comfortable with how to work it. Installing different text boxes was where I struggled the most. It took me awhile to figure out how to edit the text once I had created the text box. After I figured that out, it was very easy to do. When teaching my students how to make a glog, I think I will have them do one experimental glog like I did, where it gives them a chance to mess around with how the system works. I would also help talk them through an orientation of the ways to do the simple things on glogster.
The website Glogster, is a very eye appelaing site that I think will always keep my students attention. I think that this would be such a fun way to have my students make Health related posters. It opens there minds to other ways to make informational posters than to just draw one. I would evaluate my students glogs by the information they provided, and their creativeness. I want them to explore the site and add colors, pictures, etc. I think students will have a blast using glogster and I recommend it for ALL subjects!
Your glog sounds neat! Do you have a link so I could view the actual text?
ReplyDeleteI think it might also be helpful to teach students how to make glogs--for example, you might show them models of other glogs, or you might teach them how to choose main ideas and put them in big letters, while they put sub-ideas in small letters. You and your students could make rubrics together about what would make a good glog on a certain subject as well (e.g., what information they needed to include in glog about depressants).
You could even ask them to make a sketch first of what they might include in their glog. :)
Sorry--I meant to end that last post by saying that I really appreciate how you are encouraging your students to represent what they know about health through multiple representations and through digital texts. :)
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