A glog is an interactive online scrapbook. Its like a poster but it can have videos, sound, links and pictures.
The above link is to a glog that I made for an early literacy lesson on nouns, verbs and adjectives. It has a video for the students to watch. It has games that teach the students how to identify and use nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Learning Benefits -
The learning benefits of this are numerous. It appeals to all learning styles - Visual, Aural and Kinaesthetic.
It increases students learning by making the task enjoyable and relevant. It promotes the use of technology. This is also a fantastic outlet for creative expression. They are flexible and can incorporate any topic and any medium e.g. video and pictures and links.
Glogster identifies a range of learning benefits in using glogs ( http://edu.glogster.com/classroom-benefits/?onemill=1)
- 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 needed 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
Learning Purposes -
Interactive Online Scrapbooks could be used as a homework activity. It also could be used in a classroom context to measure students prior knowledge, to introduce a topic or even as a tool for assessment. A great way to use this tool is through making it an assignment for the students to create a glog, therefore, incorporating higher order thinking. The assignment can be on a specific topic being studied in the classroom or as a general assignment on any task.
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