My Glogster
This is my attempt at a Glogster!
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Glogster created by Danielle Trewin. March 2013
Glogster Reflection Scaffolded by De Bono's (1985) Six Thinking Hats.
White Hat - Information
Sample Questions
· What information do you have?
· What information would you like to have?
· How do you get the information you need?
Data and Information:
- Glogster EDU was launched in 2009 to serve the educational community.
- Educational Glogster is a Web 2.0 tool that allows users to create virtual posters combining text, audio, video, images, and hyperlinks and to share them with others electronically.
- Using Glogster’s educational site, GlogsterEDU, teachers can establish class lists and monitor student activity while protecting privacy and anonymit
Red Hat - Feelings
Sample Questions
- What are my feelings now?
- What is my gut reaction?
- What does my intuition tell me?
I remember creating old school projects back in the 1980’s, displaying cut out photos, using
colouring pens and pencils. It was great to create back then but today, this "old fashioned"
but fun idea, has been given new life and imagination in the digital world.
- I like the fact that its a free application for basic users and can be done on most computers.
- The ability to create anything, with an unlimited resource online is fantastic.
- Just from my own expereince, I loved thinking about what to write, making sure it described my subject on the Glogster page.
- Teachers can establish Glogster EDU class lists and monitor student activity while protecting privacy and anonymity. A virtual classroom could have up to 200 students, all of which are protected by user names and passwords.
- Heaps of fun to use - very creative, great for any age group!
- A collaborative learning style - numerous students can work on a project "glog" together
- It uses constructivism and connectivism, to create a structured, thought out project.
- I reall ylike the idea that this supports ongoing learning - where to from here? By clicking onto the glogster pages links, it can take you to further research, interest points. Ideally it could connect with others doing the same project around the world!
- As a teacher I could present a "project theme", via a Glogster, covering the Essential Learnings or the Australian curriculum, of a particular key learning area.
Black Hat - Weaknesses
Sample Questions
- What are the difficulties with this?
- Do you think this is true?
- What is wrong with this?
- What do you think the risks are?
- What should you be cautious about?
- Do you think this will work?
Disadvantages
- Time consuming
- Too many choices to make (overwhelming for younger students), meaningless creations, they lose sight of the content.
- Can not see the whole page on your screen at one time - you have to scroll down.
- Is not for a first timer, you have to know the language to know what skills are needed to create a page.
- Need Internet Access
- Students who do not know what they are doing will delete their work by accident
- Students who do not know what they are doing will delete their work by accident, losing hours or weeks of work by forgetting to save the document.
- Teachers/Students not comfortable with Web 2.0
- Girls may prefer this task, more so than boys.
- To address "meaningless creations", with too many choices too make, activities would need to be scaffolded by the teacher to ensure learning outcomes are achieved. Also to provide scaffolding for students who may have difficulty finding appropriate images or media files to incorporate into their glogs.
- Student would need to be educated and informed about safe and ethical practice. Students need to be educated about choosing appropriate passwords and not giving away personal information. Students need to be educated about how personal photographs and personal information should be protected.
- Glogster is a social networking site; special permission may be needed to use it in the classroom. especially for a younger classroom (users should be over the age of 13?)
- I have found out from other GDLT students that if you use a Teacher account and log on as the mediator with student links, it can be overcome.
- Need to make students aware of the dangers of copyright when using images etc on their own glog.
- Teachers will need to secure permission to upload student works to a glog. Students view other glogs – how do you control content and make sure it is appropriate. According to several websites I visited there are ways of managing this in the teacher accounts as you are able to log on to students glogs, view their progress and monitor inappropriate content.
Yellow Hat - Strengths
Sample Questions
- Why is this worth doing?
- How will this help?
- Why can it be done?
- What are the good things about this?
- Why will it work?
Advantages
- Colourful
- Great way to spruce up your Wiki page
- Different way to display thoguhts and ideas.
- Provides opportunities for visual learners to learn about the topic of interest.
- Each page is different from the next.
- Allows students to feel empowered and independent by using their own photos and arrangements.
- Students can choose how they want their page to look.
- Animations, photos and videos are easily imported.
- Another way to incorporate technology.
- School-safe elements and galleries
- Select images from Glogster.com's resources
- Complete protection from content outside the virtual classroom environment
- Private glogs and student accounts
- Multi-sensory learning and supports children with diverse needs
- Able to be graded (Develop a scoring rubric to assess students’ glogs). For inspiration, view a sample Glog Rubric.
- Tips for use appear at the bottom of the glog editing screen and educational resources are available on the Glogster EDU homepage.
- Create a step-by-step tutorial for students or use one such as Glog On! to teach students how to create a glog. Provide students with ample opportunities to practice using Glogster.
The following is an excerpt from the Glogster (2011) website listing the benefits of their own product.
a) “A fun learning experience
b) A new way to express creativity
c) Private, secure, safe virtual classroom monitored by teachers
d) Drives new interest levels around subjects that may have been seen as “boring” before
e) Adds audiovisual aspects to traditionally text-oriented subjects
f) Fosters teamwork and collaboration with classmates
g) Increases drive to be independently creative
h) Unlimited shelf lie
i) Keeps teachers and students up-to-date with modern technology
j) Improves student-teacher relationships by allowing both to explore Web 2.0 & learning concepts together”.
· Click here for a link to the website. http://edu.glogster.com/classroom-benefits/
Green Hat - Creativity
Sample Questions
- What else could you do here?
- What are the possibilities?
- What are other ways to solve this?
- What will overcome the difficulties?
How you might use this in the classroom.
To begin with the end in mind, I refer to the goal of ICT use as outlined in this statement by Education Queensland (2011)
“Students explore, select and use ICT in the processes of inquiry and research across key learning areas. They identify an inquiry focus; plan, conduct and manage searches; and evaluate data and information gathered for relevance, credibility and accuracy. They reflect on and evaluate how ICT have assisted in meeting inquiry purposes and in developing new understandings".
Make sure that all the activities, scaffolded by the teacher are a model of safe and ehtical practicess for the students and that the related ICT activity educates the students to do the same.
After completion of the activity, allow the students to reflect, with feedback, expressing what things they liked or didnt like. perhaps some website they enjoyed or a link that helped the student solve a problem. Wss it hard or easy fro some and why?
“Students explore, select and use ICT in the processes of inquiry and research across key learning areas. They identify an inquiry focus; plan, conduct and manage searches; and evaluate data and information gathered for relevance, credibility and accuracy. They reflect on and evaluate how ICT have assisted in meeting inquiry purposes and in developing new understandings".
Make sure that all the activities, scaffolded by the teacher are a model of safe and ehtical practicess for the students and that the related ICT activity educates the students to do the same.
After completion of the activity, allow the students to reflect, with feedback, expressing what things they liked or didnt like. perhaps some website they enjoyed or a link that helped the student solve a problem. Wss it hard or easy fro some and why?
Encourage an activity to explore other students Glogsters and write down two things they liked about it. Set up a Wiki , using the six de bono's hats scaffolding to collaborate all the sudents thoughts, feeling, ideas for further analysis and higher order thinking. Pick a hat and write about it!
The following ideas could apply to creating a Glog and are taken fromSmart Classrooms (2011) a website produced by Education Queenslandwhich helps teachers to “plan meaningful and engaging learning experiences that incorporate the use of ICT".
· “Create a digital presentation outlining the role and importance of sport in different cultures”. Intercultural investigations. Yr 4/5
· “Use publishing software to design and create a brochure about a local event or place in another country. Email the brochure to students of a sister school in that country, Ask these students for feedback”. LOTE. English: Writing and Designing. Yr 4/5
· “Use publishing software to design and create a travel brochure advertising a significant Australian tourist attraction or significant place of interest, such as the Great Barrier Reef”. SOSE: Culture and Identity, Continuity and Change. English: Writing and Designing. Yr 4/
· “With support, locate information about a famous Queenslander. Present information as a digital poster including text and images”. SOSE: Culture and Identity. Yr P-3.
· To access more ideas follow this linkhttp://education.qld.gov.au/smartclassrooms/strategy/dp/studentict.html
· Zimmer (2009) suggests the following ways to use Glogster
Create a Virtual Collage from images, audio, and video from the web.
Create a step by step glog of a math problem or concept
Create a biography of someone in history going down the glog as they get older
Create a timeline of events
Showcase an experiment in class
Give directions on how to do something.
Create a review of a book, movie, restaurant, play, etc.
Create a glog for pages in a yearbook
Create a glog about an event for the school news or newspaper
Create a Compare and Contrast Glog
Create a Vocabulary Glog for your students
Create a Glog Syllabus
Create a Glog Chapter Review for chapters of a textbook (Would make a great end of the year activity)
Create a Family Tree Glog.
Retrieved fromhttp://www.edutechintegration.com/2009/12/glogster-in-classroom.html
· “Create a digital presentation outlining the role and importance of sport in different cultures”. Intercultural investigations. Yr 4/5
· “Use publishing software to design and create a brochure about a local event or place in another country. Email the brochure to students of a sister school in that country, Ask these students for feedback”. LOTE. English: Writing and Designing. Yr 4/5
· “Use publishing software to design and create a travel brochure advertising a significant Australian tourist attraction or significant place of interest, such as the Great Barrier Reef”. SOSE: Culture and Identity, Continuity and Change. English: Writing and Designing. Yr 4/
· “With support, locate information about a famous Queenslander. Present information as a digital poster including text and images”. SOSE: Culture and Identity. Yr P-3.
· To access more ideas follow this linkhttp://education.qld.gov.au/smartclassrooms/strategy/dp/studentict.html
· Zimmer (2009) suggests the following ways to use Glogster
Create a Virtual Collage from images, audio, and video from the web.
Create a step by step glog of a math problem or concept
Create a biography of someone in history going down the glog as they get older
Create a timeline of events
Showcase an experiment in class
Give directions on how to do something.
Create a review of a book, movie, restaurant, play, etc.
Create a glog for pages in a yearbook
Create a glog about an event for the school news or newspaper
Create a Compare and Contrast Glog
Create a Vocabulary Glog for your students
Create a Glog Syllabus
Create a Glog Chapter Review for chapters of a textbook (Would make a great end of the year activity)
Create a Family Tree Glog.
Retrieved fromhttp://www.edutechintegration.com/2009/12/glogster-in-classroom.html
Other ideas include, creating a poster about"who am I, or "all about me and my family," in the first few weeks of term, to create a sense of belonging.
Some other examples are:
· Science – Factual posters about dinosaurs, volcanoes, the Earth and beyond.
· English – a promotional Glogster about a book they are reading in class. A word Glog like an online dictionary of words they are learning at the time or a word map.
· History – Pick a famous character or event and present the information to the class through the glog. Insert timelines, photos, historical footage of an event.
· SOSE – Promotional travel poster to learn about different countries or a country the student has travelled to.
Blue Hat - Managing the thinking process.
Sample questions
- What is the agenda?
- WHat is the next step?
- How can the discussion be summarised so far?
- WHat is the decision?
- What is the outcome?
- What thinking has been done?
The blue hat, is helpful to define the focus at the beginning, restate the thinking goals in the mifddlw and to summarise what has been achieved at the end.
An example of this: an acitivty using a Glogster within the classroom.
- At the beginning the students would have been given a clear goal and focus to obtain, to create a glogster about a topic.
- During the middle of this process, these thinking goals would be restated. Reminding students of copyright, privacy, ethical standards of content.
- Finally summarising the students content wiht feedback and reflection aboutt he journey taken. A wiki might be a great collaborative tool to share thoughts, ideas, reflections about the creating process of the students glogster. Further research and thinking may arise form this reflection, where to from here discussions??
References
De Bono, E, (1985) Six thinking hats: An essential approach to business management. Retrieved from http://www.parade.vic.edu.au/MD/teacher_research_guide/Defining/defining_debono.htmReferences.
Glogster EDU. (2011) Classroom benefit. Retrieved from http://edu.glogster.com/classroom-benefits/
Education Queensland. (2011) Student ICT expectations. Smart classrooms. Department of Education and Training. Retrieved from
http://education.qld.gov.au/smartclassrooms/strategy/dp/studentict.html
Zimmer, M. ( 2009, December 1). Glogster in the classroom. The pursuit of technology integration happiness. Retrieved from http://www.edutechintegration.com/2009/12/glogster-in-classroom.html
Hey Danielle, I like how you used the 6 thinking hats to analyse gloster, hope you don't mind me using some of your points and for me to link and ref you in my blog post. Thanks.
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