Glogster is the new way to make online posters. Will it replace the difficult-to-carry 50 cent poster boards?
Students are using it in the classroom, inserting their own graphics, sounds and videos. It looks a bit like PowerPoint on steroids, but it’s just one page (not multiple slides) and is reachable by a URL. The glog can be public or private, and is very customizable. While it may load slowly at first, once loaded, the components seem to react quickly.
Why this may be important to libraries: As students come in to create these, they may have some issues composing their glogs. The free, online editing is a bit clunky. Also, the upload feature will require them to bring images, sounds, etc. on their flash drives (or they can find them online).
To demonstrate Glogster, we created this page that contains all of the details and links.
Cool fact:
It took about 20 minutes for me to add graphics, picture frames, and e-mail and hyperlinks to this hideous page, but it was fairly easy, fast and free.
