Digital tool: Glogster
Glogster in the classroom
Glogster is a collaborative online learning tool for teachers and students to demonstrate and express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom in all learning areas. I believe there are many learning benefits of Glogster but one main benefit is that it expands digital literacy. Below are the many more benefits of Glogster which reflect its effectiveness in the classroom.
Some benefits of Glogster
- Engaging
- Easy to use
- Glog – interactive poster
- Collaborative class projects
- School-level teacher management of students and classes
- Private and safe student environment
- Engage students in fun and creative activities
- National educational standards
- A fun learning experience
- A new way to express creativity
- Private, secure, safe virtual classroom monitored by teachers
- Drives new interest levels around subjects that may have been seen as “boring” before
- Adds audiovisual aspects to traditionally text-oriented subjects
- Fosters teamwork and collaboration with classmates
- Increases drive to be independently creative
- Unlimited shelf life
- Improves student-teacher relationships by allowing both to explore Web 2.0 & learning concepts together
- Keeps teachers and students up-to-date with modern technology
- A valuable learning tool that integrates all KLA’s
- Develops essential skills
Retrieved from http://edu.glogster.com/classroom-benefits/
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