The document discusses the challenges faced by educators today, particularly in engaging digitally savvy students using traditional learning methods. It introduces Glogster Edu, a platform designed for creating interactive digital posters (glogs), which enhances student learning and promotes creativity while providing a secure environment for both teachers and students. With over 8 million users, Glogster Edu offers various benefits for teachers and students, making lessons more engaging and effective.

1. February 2012
www.edu.glogster.com

2. What are the challenges for educators
today?
• Teachers are challenged to excite and motivate their students.
• Students are “digital natives” who live and breathe technology.
• Many teaching and learning methods continue to adhere to
traditional paper/poster/textbook models.
• Students using traditional methods are not engaged in the
learning process.
The solution:
Provide an interactive online learning platform for teachers to
engage their students.
Introducing Glogster EDU!

3. Glogster 101
Glogster was inspired by the worldwide poster culture of teenagers.
The idea was to recreate their physical bedroom walls in digital
format with multimedia resources.
This digital poster is called a GLOG.
Glog
Girl‘s room

4. What is a Glog?
A Glog is an interactive digital poster
containing:
Glog creation
tool

5. Glogster EDU for teachers
The simplicity and ease of creating a Glog was attractive to the
educational community in the US.
It was as easy for teachers to prepare a lesson with a Glog as it was
for teenagers to put together posters of pop stars.
But educators’ demands for a secure and advertisement-free environment
for their students required a new, separate platform.
Hence: Glogster EDU.
A simple teacher management system was implemented:
 Classroom set up
 Student portfolio creation
 Project creation
 Presentation tools
 Grading and commenting on student Glogs

6. How can a teacher use Glogster EDU?
 Projects
 Homework
 Creating lesson plans
 Classroom demonstration tool
 Resource sharing
 Professional development
Assign tasks
Thoroughly explain the topic
Attach additional information
for students
Give a due date

7. Benefits for teachers
 Teachers can transform tradition curriculum into CREATIVE and FUN
lessons
 Creating Glogs is ENGAGING, MOTIVATING and INSPIRING and
enhances students’ digital literacy
 Glogs can be saved in the database and viewed and/or UPDATED
anytime, saving teachers time
 Glog storage is PERMANENT and retrieval is INSTANTANEOUS
 Glogster EDU provides a SECURE environment
tailored to students and educators
 Teachers have FULL CONTROL over student profiles
 24/7 help support

8. Glog projects
Glogs are the perfect end product
for any lesson or project
assignment. Glog projects require
students to:
 search the internet to find relevant
data (text, images, video, audio)
 recognize and process only
reliable and up-to-date information
 give structure and composition to
the information in order to create a
visually appealing end product

9. Teacher & student interaction
It does not end with Glog creation:
 Students enjoy presenting their work to the class / audience
 Students learn to defend their work and answer related questions
Glogs can be shared with classmates, teachers, and parents

10. Student benefits
 Students find learning FUN, FUN, FUN
 Great for PROJECT-BASED LEARNING (independent research, data
assessment, Glog creation, presentation of their work)
 STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY improves students’ IT skills
 Utilize CREATIVITY as well as LOGIC
 Excellent for students with SPECIAL NEEDS
 Permanent Glog PORTFOLIO
 Effective DISTANCE LEARNING tool
 PRIVATE and SAFE environment

11. Where are we now?
Over 8,475,000 652,000 teachers
registered users 7,823,000 students
worldwide
60% users in the USA 11% of US teachers
use Glogster EDU

12. Glogster EDU highlights
 Easy and fun to use
 Lessons are never boring; exciting for teachers and
students
 Scalable for students of all ages
 Inspires motivation and curiosity
 Engages both logic and creativity
 Encourages verbal skills
 Instills feelings of achievement and pride
 Glogs are permanent and can be updated anytime
 Constant improvements to platform
 Eco-friendly

13. Can Glogster EDU make a difference in your
classroom?
Glogster EDU is yours!