Jun 24 2008
Glogster for Online Posters
OK - so I decided to take out a bit of time and play with Glogster right now :-) I have made an online poster of sites that I have made over the last year or so. You can click on a site image to take you to that site. I had a lot of fun with this though the results are not that stunning and I learned a few lessons along the way.
1) The page is a set to A4 portrait size which would seem to make it impossible to play around with some layouts. However, if you embed the page into a wiki and play around with the width and height settings in the embed code, you can change the size of the area you are working on. Instead of shrinking the page while keeping the same dimensions, playing with the embed size settings will actually cut off areas of the page. This is how I got my page to look the way it does in the picture. I heard about this site when visiting Lenva at Bucklands Beach Intermediate School. The kids there use Glogster to make the front navigation page of their online portfolios. Some of the children have moved into using Wikispaces for their portfolios and you can see an example of a student called Jess by clicking here.
I have embedded my Glogster page into my educational software wiki and you can go and check it out by clicking here (the picture above is just a screenshot)
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Thanks for the lead. I had seen pages like this before and thought they were awesome, like this one, http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/
now I know how it was done!
Hi Suzie!
Glogster is very cool. Lenva showed us out our recent Waimarino Cluster ICT Conference here in Tauranga. I can see how it and wikispaces can be the next big thing when it comes to e-portfolios. (As long as schools don’t filter Glogster).
Keep rocking!
Hi Suzie,
I discovered Glogster earlier in the year and my students made glogs for their film studies, you can see them here if you are interested - http://katikaticollegecreations.wikispaces.com/