Innovative Teaching with Glogster Edu !

Hello everyone :)

All of us know that technological devices like smartphones, tablets and laptops are very essential in our today's world and thanks to these devices, acquiring a second language is much easier for learners. For example, everyone who want to learn an English can easily find a lot of useful apps that help their English learning process. And today I am here to introduce one of these apps, it is GlogsterEdu.

GlogsterEdu is an interactive visual platform in which teachers and students create a poster or web page containing text, audio, video, images, graphics and backgrounds.The app has both paid and free version and you can choose one of them.-I have a Free Basic Teacher account and I found it enough for me.-After you choose account level and sign up, you can simply create your own GLOGS. There are two categories: Dashboard and Glogpedia. If you select a Glogpedia you will see a lot of glogs that others users create and share with people related to very kind of topics like science, art, music, language and so on. When you choose Dashboard, you can create your own glog about whatever is on your mind.   

Steps of creating a new Glog: Write what you think related to any topic and don't forget add picture ! But words and pictures aren't enough ? Pump it up with some audio ! And also you can enhance your glog by adding a video. Then save, publish and share. Yes, that is so easy.                                                                 

                                     

• Example of Glogpedia:

Simply stated, a glog is an online poster, yet it offers much more through its multimedia components and its ability to share glogs with others. Overall, the site is great for creation and outstanding visual, interactive displays. Teachers can use this tool to a lot of activities in the classroom. For example: They can send glogs to their students with links, videos, audio, and photos as well as guided questions for them to answer! It is a fun and exciting way to get students to do their homework. Or students can create personal timelines or timelines of historical events and so on. Also Teachers can use glogster to explain any subject so that the lesson become more interesting. GlogsterEdu has really extensive usage as a teacher or student you can simply benefit from glogster for any purpose. You can explore more than what I explained visiting the site by clicking here.

Powerful Tool for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling

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This week's post of Technology and Material Design lesson is creating a Digital Storytelling. Some of yours may think "What is the digital story ?" well then firtly I mention about it. Digital storytelling is the practice of combining narrative with digital content, including images, sounds and video to create a short movie. In this project I worked with Nazife, yeahh as always :) Choosing a considerate and responsible partner for these project is really helpful to complete the work successfully. And nazife is really one of them ! We chose the one of the three options which was given to us by the Gokçe Kurt, and It is creating the fictional story. For this work we had to advance step by step so firstly we created a story including topic and according to topic developing characters then writing scripts, preparing storyboard, finding suitable images, which was the most difficult part for us, to the story and so on. After we completed these steps, to create a our story's video we used to movie maker. I definitely recommend movie maker because usage of it really easy. You can both arrange your images or videos and aldo you can dub your story. Finally we dubbed the our story and this part was very amusing because our story intended for young learners, we adapt our voices to childish sound. 

As a result I think that digital storytelling is one of the best project ever. It is beneficial to both teachers and learners' educational development, creating a positive atmosphere between teachers and students, enhancing creavity and so on. 

Now you can watch our digital story, have a nice watch :)