Glogster

Information

Subject Areas

Apps for Teachers,

Relevant for

KS3, KS4

 

Glogster posters are great for ICT integration into English and Art subjects.

Create virtual and interactive ‘scrapbook’ style pages or mini websites. Very good for ICT integration in English and Arts based Subjects

Glogster is a free educational platform designed to promote creative expression of ICT skills for pupils and teachers in the classroom. Glogs are interactive multimedia posters which can be stored in the cloud and played on any platform over the internet. Photos, charts, sound clips, drawings, graphics, text, videos and animations can all be combined. The platform works really well with interactive whiteboards.

The platform regularly showcases the best recent glogs. There’s a fully featured trading section and a forum for teachers.

Hardware requirements, network

• Internet connection.

This software needs to run on individual workstations. However, there are no issues saving to shared fileservers.
 

ICT curriculum uses and referencing

• KS3 POS: 2.3 (a, b and c)
• KS4 POS: 2.3 (a, b and c)
 

Possible teaching activities and cross curricular use

• Create animated posters.
• Create interactive whiteboard presentations.
• Store and shares projects in the cloud.