I’ve heard about Glogster SO many times recently, and not long ago, I finally signed up and created an account to see what all the fuss is about!  I hadn’t had enough time to really get stuck into it and create my own super mega Glog until today!

Wowee – it’s pretty impressive, and I’m sure I’ve only scraped the surface!

I’m responsible for ‘promo’ material for the school, so I thought about instead of the usual Photoshop job, I’ll have a go at Glogster!

Having to promote the school to current and potential families, I didn’t want the poster to be dull and boring, and what I came up with I think will catch the eyes of such families.  My principal was very impressed – and it was only a 2D paper version!

Here’s what I came up with!


What is Glogster?

Glogster lets you create ‘Glogs’ (graphical blogs) – a unique mix of text, images, music and video to create an interactive poster, individually tailored to represent YOU.

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You can create Glogs with or without registering.  Registering with an account will let you compile a library of your glogs for easy management and reference.

Part of Glogster is Glogster EDU, launched to support user in an education environment.  Teachers privately register students, creating a safe environment, and can register as many as 200 students.  All teaching Glogs are private, and teachers are able to moderate those who have access to viewing.

Glogster EDU comes in two versions:  EDU Basic, which is free to use, and EDU Premium – a paid service.  EDU Premium allows the addition of more than 200 students and their management, projects and sharing of glogs between students and schools.  You also have the ability to ‘draw’ within the Glog and upload data.

I’ve only registered for the individual account, and aim to look into an EDU more closely.


Glogster in the Classroom

The possibilities to use Glogs within the classroom are endless!  My only concern for students, would be the issue I had – choosing from all the amazing backgrounds and bubbles and stickers and fonts and colours!

You can create interactive posters based on topic you’re studying in class, imbedding it with instructional videos, images and text.  An amazing resource I came across by Tehescmarts, lists numerous Glogs based on various Science topics, all available for use, pending correct citations.  This is only one, of what I assume many resources like this.

I intend to introduce my Grade 3/4 class to Glogster very soon, and hopefully they will choose to present their upcoming research assignment on a famous Australian, in this format – I just know that a couple of them have the potential to do an amazing job with it!

Have you and your class used Glogster?

What did you use if for?