Sunday, March 4, 2012

Check out Glogster

Teachers, kids and families will find this online digital poster making program amusing.  Once you have an account, you can even blog about them.  Make sure to set your search defaults to a conservative level in the control panel to make sure all your search results within this program are kid friendly.  See my post about how to do this if you are confused.  


Some ideas for usage:
-  Make a digital persuasive or informative piece.  Then, have the kids blog about the effectiveness of each others' work. 
- make the cover of a book from the children's perspective.  Or, have them recreate the front page to demonstrate how the setting of a book can change the mood or theme.  
- illustrate a major event from the story
- make an informative poster and add text features
- create an advertisement
- make a visual "how to" piece 
- or create a page for yourself where kids can check out videos and links
- make a poster that shows what you learned and saw on your field trip

Scared to fiddle with it?  Check out this quick tutorial.


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