Sunday, April 22, 2012

week 12

Analysis of educational “affordances” on glogster

Features of Glogster
Affordances
·      Ability to create and share interactive posters
·      Teachers and students are able to create a digital learning environment, where teachers and students are able to learn and explore together. Glogster can be used across the curriculum spectrum. However in ELA students can use the interactive poster to brainstorm ideas for research papers. Teachers can use it to teach students about grammar and vocabulary.
·      Ability to post text, graphics, music, videos, etc.
·      The teachers have the ability to uses these tools to reach diverse learners (visually, auditory, and kinesthetic), to help students understanding of ELA concepts.
·      Ability to have collaborative class projects
·      The students are able to work together and brainstorm using one poster on Glogster. They are able to work on assignments and get feedback throughout the assignments from the teacher. The teacher is able to assess how the students are progressing.
·      Provides a private and safe student environment for students to learn and explore
·      The teacher can easily creates a private virtual classroom and monitor all activities within the account throughout the learning process.


I found Globster to be a great program to use for all curriculums. I think Globster can be a very useful tool to use in the ELA classroom. The students have the ability to work together on book assignments and presentations. It can be used to make book reports instead of the traditional way of writing a book report. It allows the students to become more creative and explore the topic more in depth. It is a great tool to use for brainstorming on topics and ideas instead of using a Venn diagram to compare and contrast. Globster is very versatile and can be using in many areas of ELA as well as other subjects.

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