Glogster+(Social+Studies_Immigration+Project)

Tool: [|edu.glogster.com] A Glog is an interactive visual platform in which users create a “poster or web page” containing multimedia elements including: text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawings, and data.

Lesson: Students were given an ethnic group to research. Students were given topics to research on the subject of immigration to the United States by those ethnic groups, ie, Germans, Irish, Polish, Chinese, Jewish, etc. Topics included push/pull factors, jobs, inventions, foods, etc of those ethnic groups.

Length of time: Students were given four days for research and three days to create their glogsters.

Brief Description: Students took the information from their research and created an online poster of their research. Students included images found during their research.

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Positives: Glogsters are graphically pleasing as well as easy to use. Students enjoy creating glogsters.

Negatives: Glogster is not a free site. Although the cost for 50 accounts is only $29.95 and accounts can be resused. Teachers are also able to purchase 200 accounts for $99.95. Those costs are per year. Accounts that are reused need to have previous glogsters cleared out as well as the image cache which can be time consuming. Students are also able to add text into what is called the "dashboard." This is something they have to look for to be able to do, but it's not difficult for most students to figure out. Any added text to the dashboard would also need to be cleaned out. Glogsters use a lot of ink when printing. Also when printing the glogster edu banner prints in the upper lefthand corner. It is only about 2" long and 1/2" wide, but can interfere with the text or graphics students are using. If students are infomed ahead time, they usually avoid putting anything in that space that interferes with their project.

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