Glogster is an interactive poster creation tool that allows students to combine text, images, video, and audio to create engaging digital posters. The author uses Glogster in their art classroom to create posters featuring weekly artists. While there are many online educational tools to choose from, Glogster enables creativity and creative presentations of materials. Some challenges include identifying the most appropriate tools without getting overwhelmed, but limited technical skills can be improved over time through use of the tools.

1. Art Education K-12 Stacie Didier Building Online Learning Environments December 16, 2010

2. Most Useful Tool Glogster is an exciting poster-creation tool that provides a platform for students to combine text, images, video and audio to create an interactive, Web-based poster masterpiece.

3. Glogster Visual images are becoming the predominant form of communication in the 21stCentury. The possibilities of using this tool in your teaching are endless.It lets you create Chapter Summaries, Hotlists of sites for Reading/Math, Poetry Glogs, Pond Animals, Art History… It lets the students have a fun learning experience and promotes creativity.

4. I used Glogster to create a poster to feature a weekly artist in my classroom.

5. Success Encountered Gaining exposure to multiple online tools that can be used in the classroom. Learning how to tie different applications into a single platform such as Edmodo. Enables me to bring much more creativity into the presentation of materials to the class. Despite limited technical skills, it was nice to find so many tools can be easily implemented.

6. Challenges Encountered With the vast amount of resources available, it is challenging to identify the most appropriate tool without getting bogged down looking at sites that are not beneficial. Limited technical skills made some aspects more challenging, however the time spent led to improved capabilities.

7. Pros There are numerous advantages of learning through Moodle, the first being ease of use. It allows you the ability to construct collaborative course communities, such as Wiki, quizzes, assignments & forums. It gives you the ability to easily add, change or organize information. Cons You can download Moodle for free but unless it’s supported by a school district, fees will quickly add up. It does take an IT department or someone very technologicalysavvy to implement & run.

8. Online Learning Pros Online learning has the ability to provide learning experiences more tailored to an individual student. It has the ability to connect learners through social networking platforms. Meaningful learning takes place within a community. Online learning is convenient and flexible. Cons The time constraint on many teachers to learn new teaching methods and adapt to technological advancements. Since it is a new approach to teaching it would be hard to show it’s effectiveness without some form of assessment.