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=Introduction:= ====Glogster EDU is an interactive website that allows teachers and students to create online multimedia posters. This site allows you to add text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings and data charts to an online poster that can be shared with the class. This is not a normal, boring PowerPoint program. Teachers and students can research topics on the Internet and turn that information into a work of art that any student would want to learn from. I love this site because it allows teachers and students to use their creativity and go beyond simple PowerPoint posters to create innovative and fun multimedia posters that they can present to the class and even beyond the classroom walls.====

Why Glogster EDU?
====This is a wonderful Web 2.0 tool that allows teachers and students the opportunity to go beyond the white poster board or PowerPoint presentations. Everyone knows that after the third or fourth PowerPoint or poster board project the class has zoned out. Glogster offers a simple, creative and fun way to present the necessary information in a way that has the students sitting on the edge of their chair. This site is so great because of the massive amounts of different multimedia that can added to the posters in an easy way. It transforms plain text or still images into a piece of art filled with videos, sounds, pictures and graphics. There is no way that students could put videos or sounds into their basic poster board presentations. Besides the posters being more advanced, including these types of multimedia formats, this allows the students to learn more than they ever would have through the basic presentation format. Begin able to link or upload videos, photos and even data attachments increases the amount of knowledge that can be learned. I chose this site because it is not just for the students! Teachers can spice up their lectures, and grab the students attention through these online posters. I also chose Glogster because it is an easy, safe and secure online classroom that allows students to work or share their poster from any location with an Internet connection.====

====This tool can be used in so many ways in the classroom. Teachers can give engaging lectures through Glogster.They can share videos, pictures, sounds and other graphics on their lesson topic through their presentations. Students can use this platform to create and share posters that they make in __any__ class. The material being taught does not always have to be straight forward facts. Students can create anything from book reviews to science experiment reflections. This would be a great place to start with the first week "get to know me" activities or end of the unit assessments. What ever information you are wanting the students to share their ideas on, Glogster helps present it. Students can work independently or collaboratively with their peers without the mess and time restraints of poster board and colored pencils. Students will be able to be creative and still teach their classmates the material in an engaging way. The students can have fun making the posters and watching their classmates present. When the students are interested and having fun, they are retaining the information much better. ====

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