Educational+Facebook+-+Glogster

=Glogster= Helpful Handouts to Get Started: Examples: Science - Rocks [|Rose Quartz] [|Tiger's Eye] [|Flourite]

Language Arts - Characters After reading Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pies, students became a character from the book. [|Renee Albert] [|Annette Watson] [|Jeffrey Alper]

Enables students to create:
 * A profile describing themselves
 * Posters or glogs that may include text, graphic, and videos
 * Messages to their teacher and classmates

Benefits of using Glogster:
 * Fosters students' intrinsic motivation
 * Presents information clearly
 * Demonstrates student creativity

Educational uses/ideas:
 * Sudents "become" characters of books
 * Students "become" literary elements
 * Students "become" geometric shapes
 * Students "become" exponents

Examples of Math Glogs:
 * []

Examples of Language Arts Glogs:
 * [|Reading]
 * []
 * []

Getting started with Glogster:
 * Go to []
 * Register for a virtual class
 * Complete the registration form and click on sign up when done

Obtaining student accounts:
 * Log in using your nickname and password
 * You will be on your dashboard
 * Scroll down to view your messages.
 * Open the message containing your subaccounts (student accounts)
 * Copy, paste, and save the subaccounts into a word document **You will NOT be able to change the student nicknames**
 * Distribute subaccounts to students, and keep a copy for yourself

Key Components of Glogster:
 * Dashboard
 * Profile
 * Glogs
 * Classmates
 * Messages

My Dashboard Profile Classmates Messages Glogs
 * Similar to "home" on a website
 * Can access any other feature
 * Enables you to complete background information about yourself
 * Shows the subaccounts
 * Allows access to any of them
 * Can send messages to all members
 * Can create and receive messages from subaccounts
 * Glogster can send messages
 * To create a new glog, click on Create a new glog
 * A template will appear
 * To alter the template, click on any of the preloaded icons
 * To edit the icons, click on EDIT, to delete them click on the trash can