Glogster EDU
Encyclopedia
Glogster EDU is an education platform that was developed from Glogster
. It is a new kind of social network
.
Glogster EDU is a web 2.0
platform which enables users to create virtual posters. While the original version of Glogster is used mainly by teenagers, Glogster EDU is intended mainly for educators and students. Currently 7,500,000 students and teachers are registered on Glogster EDU. Glogster EDU is a kind of learning management system. Teachers can create projects, presentations, and assignments, grade student work, and communicate with students online.
Teachers can respond to and assess pupils’ work. The platform is secure, as it may be accessed only by a teacher who fully supervises his or her students’ activities and determine which Glogs go public and thus create an online digital encyclopedia
with educational content.
Glogster EDU provides students with the opportunity for self expression and develops their creativity. Students can process given tasks and school topics in their own manner and present their knowledge in an easy-to-use, engaging format. Moreover, the Glogs may be developed under various categories, such as mathematics, or physics.
Teachers may create accounts for students on Glogster EDU without using their e-mail
addresses or personal information. With the Basic platform, up 50 students may be registered in one virtual class, and the individual Premium License allows for up to 200 students. School Licenses may include an unlimited number of students.
The Glogster EDU tools create an environment in which students and teachers can cooperate, discuss subjects and give each other feedback. Students can comment on one another's glogs and teachers may exchange messages with their students. Teachers are therefore able to supervise projects and coordinate their progress.
and teacher controls which allow for editing student accounts (e.g. registration, adding or deleting a student).
At the time of its creation, Glogster was inspired partly by classic paper posters and generally by the worldwide poster pop-culture of teenagers.
is a social network
that allows users to create free interactive posters, or glogs. The glog
, short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content. Glogster was founded in 2007. Currently this social network has hundreds of thousands registered users. The majority of the Glogster community is teenagers.
Glogster provides an environment to design interactive posters. The user inserts text, images, photos, audio (MP3
), videos, special effects and other elements into their glogs to generate a multimedia online creation. Glogster is based on flash
elements. Posters can be shared with other people. Glogs can also be exported and saved to computer-compatible formats.
Each visitor can integrate dynamic multi-sensory resources into traditionally text-oriented tasks.Glogster EDU comes in two versions: EDU Basic, which is free and EDU Premium, which is paid.
, one of the world's leading Internet portals focusing on educational media. This partnership allows the students and teachers who are using Glogster EDU to share their glogs on the popular site SchoolTube.com and import multimedia from SchoolTube
to their glogs. Glogster EDU cooperates with Wikispaces
and Edmodo
. Glogster EDU also cooperates with ISTE- International Society for Technology in Education, MassCUE, NECC Ning and TinyPic
.
Since May 2009 Glogster EDU also cooperates with DetentionSlip.org, an online media
company that focuses on news related to public education.
Glogster
Glogster is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters, or glogs. A glog, short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content. Glogster was founded in 2007. Currently this social network has over...
. It is a new kind of social network
Social network
A social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "nodes", which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.Social...
.
Glogster EDU is a web 2.0
Web 2.0
The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...
platform which enables users to create virtual posters. While the original version of Glogster is used mainly by teenagers, Glogster EDU is intended mainly for educators and students. Currently 7,500,000 students and teachers are registered on Glogster EDU. Glogster EDU is a kind of learning management system. Teachers can create projects, presentations, and assignments, grade student work, and communicate with students online.
Teaching with Glogster EDU
Glogster EDU is an online educational system which is designed for interactive, collaborative education and is suitable for teachers, students and the school as a whole. Glogster EDU enables users to combine videos, music, sounds, pictures, text, data attachments, special effects, animations and links into a digital poster or "glog." The platform also includes drawing tools.Teachers can respond to and assess pupils’ work. The platform is secure, as it may be accessed only by a teacher who fully supervises his or her students’ activities and determine which Glogs go public and thus create an online digital encyclopedia
Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge....
with educational content.
Glogster EDU provides students with the opportunity for self expression and develops their creativity. Students can process given tasks and school topics in their own manner and present their knowledge in an easy-to-use, engaging format. Moreover, the Glogs may be developed under various categories, such as mathematics, or physics.
Teachers may create accounts for students on Glogster EDU without using their e-mail
E-mail
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
addresses or personal information. With the Basic platform, up 50 students may be registered in one virtual class, and the individual Premium License allows for up to 200 students. School Licenses may include an unlimited number of students.
The Glogster EDU tools create an environment in which students and teachers can cooperate, discuss subjects and give each other feedback. Students can comment on one another's glogs and teachers may exchange messages with their students. Teachers are therefore able to supervise projects and coordinate their progress.
History
Glogster EDU was developed in October 2009. It was used for the first time in the USA. In November 2009 a new version, Glogster EDU 2.0, was developed containing some new features, including new and extended graphicsGraphics
Graphics are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings,or...
and teacher controls which allow for editing student accounts (e.g. registration, adding or deleting a student).
At the time of its creation, Glogster was inspired partly by classic paper posters and generally by the worldwide poster pop-culture of teenagers.
Glogster
GlogsterGlogster
Glogster is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters, or glogs. A glog, short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content. Glogster was founded in 2007. Currently this social network has over...
is a social network
Social network
A social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "nodes", which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.Social...
that allows users to create free interactive posters, or glogs. The glog
Glog
Glog may refer to:*a graphics blog or graphical blog; online rich media poster*Mulled wine, also called Glögg*G-Log, software company...
, short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content. Glogster was founded in 2007. Currently this social network has hundreds of thousands registered users. The majority of the Glogster community is teenagers.
Glogster provides an environment to design interactive posters. The user inserts text, images, photos, audio (MP3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
), videos, special effects and other elements into their glogs to generate a multimedia online creation. Glogster is based on flash
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
elements. Posters can be shared with other people. Glogs can also be exported and saved to computer-compatible formats.
Each visitor can integrate dynamic multi-sensory resources into traditionally text-oriented tasks.Glogster EDU comes in two versions: EDU Basic, which is free and EDU Premium, which is paid.
Partnerships
In June 2009 Glogster EDU announced a cooperative partnership with SchoolTubeSchoolTube
-Overview:SchoolTube is a video sharing website for K-12 education. It was created in response to large-scale access restriction of mainstream video-sharing sites in public schools in the United States. Launched in 2007, the company is based in St...
, one of the world's leading Internet portals focusing on educational media. This partnership allows the students and teachers who are using Glogster EDU to share their glogs on the popular site SchoolTube.com and import multimedia from SchoolTube
SchoolTube
-Overview:SchoolTube is a video sharing website for K-12 education. It was created in response to large-scale access restriction of mainstream video-sharing sites in public schools in the United States. Launched in 2007, the company is based in St...
to their glogs. Glogster EDU cooperates with Wikispaces
Wikispaces
Wikispaces is a hosting service based in San Francisco, California. Launched in March 2005, Wikispaces is owned by Tangient LLC and is among the largest wiki hosts, competing with PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, and Google Sites .Private wikis with advanced features for businesses, non-profits and...
and Edmodo
Edmodo
Edmodo is a social learning network for teachers, students, and parents.- Design :Edmodo's user interface has been described as similar to Facebook. Using Edmodo, teachers can post grades and assign homework to students. Students can then submit the homework and view their grade. The transmission...
. Glogster EDU also cooperates with ISTE- International Society for Technology in Education, MassCUE, NECC Ning and TinyPic
TinyPic
TinyPic is a photo and video sharing service, owned and operated by Photobucket.com , that allows users to upload, link and share, images and videos on the Internet. The idea is similar to URL shortening in which each uploaded image is given a relatively short internet address...
.
Since May 2009 Glogster EDU also cooperates with DetentionSlip.org, an online media
Mass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
company that focuses on news related to public education.
List of partnerships of Gloster and Glogster EDU and the goal of cooperation
- Edmodo (Since 2010) – Glogster embeds Glogs into their services.
- WikispacesWikispacesWikispaces is a hosting service based in San Francisco, California. Launched in March 2005, Wikispaces is owned by Tangient LLC and is among the largest wiki hosts, competing with PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, and Google Sites .Private wikis with advanced features for businesses, non-profits and...
(Since 2010) – Glogster embeds Glogs into their services. - SchoolTubeSchoolTube-Overview:SchoolTube is a video sharing website for K-12 education. It was created in response to large-scale access restriction of mainstream video-sharing sites in public schools in the United States. Launched in 2007, the company is based in St...
(Since 2009) - Option to insert SchoolTube content into Glogs. - TeacherTubeTeacherTubeTeacherTube is a video sharing website similar to, and based on, YouTube. It is designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources such as video, audio, documents, photos, groups and blogs. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching...
(Since 2010) – Glogster EDU has a Teacher Tube partner profile. They list Glogster among other services of similar type. - TinyPicTinyPicTinyPic is a photo and video sharing service, owned and operated by Photobucket.com , that allows users to upload, link and share, images and videos on the Internet. The idea is similar to URL shortening in which each uploaded image is given a relatively short internet address...
(Since 2009) – option to log into the service and insert TinyPic images when creating Glogs.
External links
- Glogster
- Glogster EDU
- Glogster EDU SchoolTube
- DetentionSlip
- Glogster EDU Facebook
- Glogster EDU Twitter
- Tech Tips For Teachers: Free, Easy and Useful Creation Tools
- Video: Discovery Education recommends Glogster EDU
- Video: Glogster EDU Tutorial - online learning tool
- Video: Glogster: creative learning tool in classroom
- Video: How to put Glog in to the WIKI (Glogster in Education)
- Video: Glogster.com on News9 - Glogging in to the classroom by Amy James
- Video: Detailed Tutorial on Glogster EDU
- Back-to-School Developments