Amazing ways to use glogster edu

1. 10 Amazing Ways
to Use Glogster EDU
Guide to the new Administrator’s Dashboard
Use QR Codes from Printed Glogs to Make a Glog Quest

2. Challenge your students to pick a classroom object, such as a book, a piece of technology,
or even something as simple as a painting on the wall, and create a Glog about the object.
If it’s a book, it can be a book report or a report on the author, or if it’s a piece of technology,
such as a sink, a computer, or even a chair, the Glog can be about that invention, its
inventor, or any other related topic.Students can even hide QR codes for each other to find
in the classroom, or you can print out Glogs about classroom objects and let students find
them on their own as part of a treasure hunt.
This can be a great way of giving students the materials to review for a test. You can even
give students a list of hints as to where they might find all of the codes. Creativity is vital in
this sort of project!
Create a Glog as a Portal to your
Favorite Resources
EDUcator Susan Oxnevad shares a
“corkboard” of digital resources she
recommends to other teachers. Try the same
thing: create a Glog with links to all the
resources you recommend to your students.
They can save it as a favorite on their web
browsers on tablets or at home, for easy
access. You can update your Glog at any
time with fresh resources or input for your
students to check in with whenever they need
inspiration or need to refer back to something
from one of your lessons.

3. Help Students to Visualize and Create InfoGraphics Based on their
own research
We love infographics at Glogster EDU. And it’s not hard to tell why: visually creative
expression is our stock and trade. Your students don’t have to just consumer infographics:
they can also create their own.
Why not start with something personal and relevant? An infographic about the
demographics of your classroom, or of your school or neighborhood? You can adapt
the concept from something personal, to something more universal once the students

4. understand why visualization of statistical information can be so powerful.
Create a Glogster EDU Book Report Library
We love infographics at Glogster EDU. And it’s not hard to tell why: visually creative
expression is our stock and trade. Your students don’t have to just consumer infographics:
they can also create their own.
Why not start with something personal and relevant? An infographic about the
demographics of your classroom, or of your school or neighborhood? You can adapt
the concept from something personal, to something more universal once the students
understand why visualization of statistical information can be so powerful.

5. Create a Map Glog featuring student Glogs on different countries
for UN Day or National or World history
The Glog-in-Glog is one of Glogster EDU’s coolest features. Once a project has been
completed, you can collect all of your student’s Glogs into one “master Glog,” that allows
students to access all those Glogs in one place.
Here’s how it works: first start a master Glog. It can be a map, a timeline, or anything you
can imagine. Creativity is key! From the project folder, you can select any Glog you’d like to
feature in your Master Glog. Once you’ve found a Glog you want to embed from the project
folder right-click on the thumbnail of that Glog. Select “copy image URL,” and then in the
master Glog, select the “link” button on the top left while in Edit Mode. Enter the URL
using ctrl-v, and submit it. An image of the Glog will now appear in your images folder. Next,
insert the image into the Glog and select it. By clicking the link button on the image itself,
you can add a link to that Glog. Now go back to that same thumbnail, and right-click it again:

6. select “copy link address,” and paste this address into the link address bar on the image. Now
you have successfully linked that Glog thumbnail to the original Glog.
Here it is in 4 Steps:

7. Hold a Creativity contest
Glogster EDU doesn’t always have to be mandatory homework. Try assigning periodic contests
for your classes by creating projects for them with more general guidelines. For example, students
studying theater could use Glogs to write and perform scenes with each other, using the Grab tool to
record video of themselves on a netbook.
Or you could assign a project wherein students come up with a marketing campaign for an imaginary
invention. The Glog can include details of the invention, and radio or even video commercials
produced by students, uploaded to Glogster EDU from a student’s digital camera or smartphone, or
recorded using the Grab tool.
Here are some of our favorite teacher submitted creativity contest ideas:
-A short story with illustrations
-A haiku (submissions can be collected into one Glog later by the
teacher) with illustrations
-A one-page “newspaper” detailing the events of an historical
day, or of a day in the life of the student, or even a page from a
newspaper 10 years from now!
-A student written dramatic monologue or dialogue, recorded
using the Grab feature

8. Create your own Glog Library in Presentations: a Glog for every
class topic

9. We’ve already discussed how to add Glogs to other Glogs to create a portal or library on a given
topic, so the potential for creating deep and rich resources for your students to access at just a few
clicks must be obvious. But let’s go one step further: why not create a presentation full of these
single-subject Master Glogs, so that your students can browse all of your class topics in one place?
Change it up: Let Your Students Propose a Glogster
Project
Here’s a nifty idea: instead of coming up with a project idea and hoping your students will find it
interesting, try something different: assign a project that simple says: “Propose your Ideal Glogster

10. EDU Project.” You can choose your favorite, or let your students vote on which one of the student
proposals they would like to do.
The Glogster EDU team