Teaching middle school students - it was important to me to engage my students in multiple ways to represent their learning. They loved to make posters and collages and I found them to be a critical way to have them represent their learning in non-visual ways.
The drawback? Not everyone is crafty or artistic (aka ME!) and I had to impose what I called the "Dollar Store Rule." If you didn't purchase it at the dollar store - you shouldn't be using it on your poster. I wanted to prevent the "I bought something more glitzy than you so I should get a higher grade mentality." (NOTE: At no time did presentation or artistic ability outweigh the content aspects of the project on my rubrics!)
Glogster seems to have leveled the playing field for students by allowing them to create electronically. See this fabulous example from a sixth grade student. AND NOW - if you use wikispaces or edmodo, you don't even have to leave the site to create a poster!
Be sure to check out Glogster EDU to see the options available to educators and check out the social studies related Glogs under categories.
No comments:
Post a Comment