Creating Posters with Glogster.com
New Media tools offer a lot of opportunities to include in the lessons. www.glogster.com for example is a webpage where you can create posters. The creation of posters has a long tradition in schools, because it is a good way to let the students summarize information in a creative way. It is always good to include it after a group work phase as a summary of the results for example. The whole group is supposed to work together which strengthens the social cooperation and supports the creativity. It is normally the case that the posters are presented after they are created. The big problem is that most of classrooms are not big enough to have room for all posters so that it is not possible to see all of them at the same time and to compare them. Another problem is the fact that not all of the students can read everything what is on the posters, because the handwriting is too little or too illegible.
A solution to these problems can be the online program Glogster. It offers the opportunity to create posters online and to save all the files. So it is easy to watch it again at a later time or to upload it as a teacher for all students so that they have it on their computer in school and it is easier to talk and discuss about it. When all posters are uploaded, the teacher has the possibility to make corrections so that only correct posters will be published for the other students.
If you decide to create posters with the program in school it is a good decision because these posters are interactive. That means that it is not only possible to insert text, but also images, audio files, video files or other special effects. Another advantage is the fact that it is possible to share the created posters with either other students or other platforms like Facebook or Twitter. I think it is a very good alternative to the “normal” poster, because you have more opportunities to save it and publish it. Handwritten posters are often packed away in cupboards and no one is interested in it anymore or looks at it again. The creation with Glogster is more efficient, because it is possible to take another look at it whenever it is wanted.
A solution to these problems can be the online program Glogster. It offers the opportunity to create posters online and to save all the files. So it is easy to watch it again at a later time or to upload it as a teacher for all students so that they have it on their computer in school and it is easier to talk and discuss about it. When all posters are uploaded, the teacher has the possibility to make corrections so that only correct posters will be published for the other students.
If you decide to create posters with the program in school it is a good decision because these posters are interactive. That means that it is not only possible to insert text, but also images, audio files, video files or other special effects. Another advantage is the fact that it is possible to share the created posters with either other students or other platforms like Facebook or Twitter. I think it is a very good alternative to the “normal” poster, because you have more opportunities to save it and publish it. Handwritten posters are often packed away in cupboards and no one is interested in it anymore or looks at it again. The creation with Glogster is more efficient, because it is possible to take another look at it whenever it is wanted.
