These are really cool sites and I can completely see using these in the classroom. Glogster is a cool poster creation site that reminds me of the posters I used to see in the halls back in high school. Yes, I have a fair amount of memory recall from those years! The posters would almost always contain some motivational or inspirational message even though only nerds like me paid attention to them. This is a perfect way to let students show what they learned from either a specific lesson in the class or a book they have read. It doesn’t mean that they should NOT write a report, but this would be the perfect companion to a writing assignment in the classroom.
Gabcast seems pretty cool too, but I don’t quite know what the application for the classroom might be. I guess I’m still kind of an in-the-box thinker when it comes to all of the rapidly advancing advances in classroom technologies. I’m sure if I sat and thought about it for a while I could come up with something interesting to do with Gabcast, but for know it’s just another novel idea to me and a new, un-attempted recipe in my classroom cookbook.
Wordle is a pretty cool site too. Like Glogster, students can input words to make a pretty neat looking design with their word choices. Again, not necessarily an essential classroom tool, but I think students might like to create something interesting with text from either the main idea of a book or content of a poem or something like that.
These seem to be great tools to use in the classroom, and I am excited about using technology in the classroom.
Not sure if you are aware, but edu.glogster.com is available for classroom use. More privacy same tools. Thanks
Glogster is still blocked in Cobb County the last I checked…we’ll talk in class soon about the issues of blocking access and the rationale behind such policies.