EDLA615 Language Arts and Technology: December 2013

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Educational “affordances” on Glogster

Features of the technology	Affordances
Glog creation interface	Easy to understand; drag and drop feature can be used by students of various age groups; interactive visual platform; users can create a virtual “poster” that contains multimedia such as text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawing, and data
Projects	Curriculum based projects can be created for classes, groups, teams, or individuals; students can work in the classroom or from any other location; a community system for sharing student work; work can be stored and viewed anytime; teacher can assign projects, provide feedback, and assess completed work
Glog presentations	Teachers can share projects with the class, school, district and elsewhere; can be embedded in a blog, wiki, or web page; student achievements can be shared with parents, administrators, students and other educators
Private and safe	Teachers can create private virtual classrooms with students; monitor all activities within the account; account can be created without student email addresses and other contact information; teachers dashboard provides access to all students, projects, and activities
One login and password	Single multi-subject and class dashboard for teachers and students; the teacher dashboard allows direct access to all individual students; students can view and manage all their projects and classes in their student dashboard; single login and password gives access to all classroom activities;

EDLA615 Language Arts and Technology