2. What are the challenges for educators
today?
• Teachers are challenged to excite and motivate their students.
• Students are “digital natives” who live and breathe technology.
• Many teaching and learning methods continue to adhere to
traditional paper/poster/textbook models.
• Students using traditional methods are not engaged in the
learning process.
The solution:
Provide an interactive online learning platform for teachers to
engage their students.
IntroducingGlogster EDU!
3. Glogster 101
Glogster was inspired by the worldwide poster culture of teenagers.
The idea was to recreate their physical bedroom walls in digital format
with multimedia resources.
This digital poster is called a GLOG.
4. What is a Glog?
A Glog is an interactive digital poster
containing:
5. Glogster EDU for teachers
The simplicity and ease of creating a Glog was attractive to the
educational community in the US.
It was as easy for teachers to prepare a lesson with a Glog as it was
for teenagers to put together posters of pop stars.
But educators’ demands for a secure and advertisement-free environment
for their students required a new, separate platform.
Hence: Glogster EDU.
A simple teacher management system was implemented:
Classroom set up
Student portfolio creation
Project creation
Presentation tools
Grading and commenting on student Glogs
6. How can a teacher use Glogster EDU?
Projects
Homework
Creating lesson plans
Classroom demonstration tool
Resource sharing
Professional development
Assign tasks
Thoroughly explain the topic
Attach additional information
for students
Give a due date
7. Benefits for teachers
Teachers can transform tradition curriculum into CREATIVE and
FUNlessons
Creating Glogs is ENGAGING, MOTIVATING and INSPIRINGand enhances
students’ digital literacy
Glogs can be saved in the database and viewed and/or UPDATED
anytime, saving teachers time
Glog storage is PERMANENT and retrieval is INSTANTANEOUS
Glogster EDU provides a SECURE environment
tailoredto students and educators
Teachers have FULL CONTROLover student profiles
24/7help support
8. Glog projects
Glogs are the perfect end product
for any lesson or project
assignment. Glog projects require
students to:
search the internet to find relevant
data (text, images, video, audio)
recognize and process only
reliable and up-to-date information
give structure and composition to
the information in order to create a
visually appealing end product
9. Teacher&student interaction
It does not end with Glog creation:
Students enjoy presenting their work to the class/ audience
Students learn to defend their work and answer related questions
Glogs can be shared with classmates, teachers, and parents
10. Student benefits
Students find learning FUN, FUN, FUN
Great for PROJECT-BASED LEARNING (independent research, data
assessment, Glogcreation, presentation of their work)
STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY improves students’ IT skills
Utilize CREATIVITY as well as LOGIC
Excellent for students with SPECIAL NEEDS
Permanent GlogPORTFOLIO
Effective DISTANCE LEARNING tool
PRIVATE and SAFE environment
11. Where are we now?
Over 8,475,000
652,000 teachers
registered users
7,823,000 students
worldwide
60% users in the USA 11% of US teachers
use Glogster EDU
12. Glogster EDU highlights
Easy and fun to use
Lessons are never boring; exciting for teachers and
students
Scalable for students of all ages
Inspires motivation and curiosity
Engages both logic and creativity
Encourages verbal skills
Instills feelings of achievement and pride
Glogs are permanent and can be updated anytime
Constant improvements to platform
Eco friendly
13. Can Glogster EDU make a difference in your
classroom?
Glogster EDU is yours!