Glogster: Multimedia Poster

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Activity Description

Students create an "About Me" glog - a multimedia online poster/scrapbook page - to introduce themselves to the class. Students can include images, text, audio, and video of/about themselves, their native countries, hobbies, interests, work, career or educational goals, family, etc.

Preparation

• Make sure the site is not blocked at your school. YouTube or other embedded videos on a glog may be blocked depending on firewall settings at your school. Check these in advance if you intend to use.
• Be sure your students have an e-mail account. Help them get a free one if necessary using Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, or any one of a number of other free acounts.
• Practice using the site yourself before having students use it.
• Demonstrate the site and provide written instructions.

How-To

1. Explain the assignment to students, showing a sample glog.
2. Students write a script (if video will be recorded of them speaking) and/or text.
3. They then gather or create media: images, videos, audio, URLs.
4. Demonstrate the site using the printed instructons (see the Glogster Directions handout).

Teacher Tips

• Students do need an e-mail account to register for the site.
• Provide feedback on writing and speaking before students create their glogs.
• With a Glogster account, students can save and edit at a later time their glogs. Most glogs will not be finished within one sitting. Allow at least an hour for a very simple glog.
• Make sure that students understand that personal information (addresses, phone numbers, etc.) should not be posted on their glogs.
• Not appropriate for students with very low technical/computer abilities.

More Ways

Here are a number of projects for which Glogster would be appropriate:

• A dedication
• A glog about a favorite music group or singer
• A movie poster or review
• A book report or review
• A personal topic, such as a report on a vacation, an autobiography, a narration or description
• A public service announcement
• Any type of traditional report
• An illustrated poem
• An informational commercial or advertisement for a made-up product or service or for a school, educational program, or class
• The history of a product, place, or person

For more ideas and to see the potential of glogging, browse other's glogs at the bottom of the page after you login.

Program Areas

• ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

• Intermediate High
• Advanced

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