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Reasons For Using Glogster: An Innovative Way to Learn Science Amy Tran Mrs. Heimbuch Period 7 I propose that our seventh period class or even all periods use more high-tech, Web 2.0 classified methods of teaching. That way teachers can capture the attention of today’s teenagers and their tech-y methods like IM-ing, or texting, social networking, etc. This way teachers can utilize the environment where students flourish: the World Wide Web. Most teens are frustrated that their adult counterparts are still using age-old methods of learning through textbooks and lecturing, translating to copying manuscript with an ink quill on parchment in today’s adolescent mind. Teens are always inventing and discovering new ways to perform actions that you would normally slave hours upon hours in the world of reality. But in the world of bits and bytes, that would happen in less than two seconds. Young people would be more likely to hook onto facts and theories if they learn it their way. A website that is legitimate and instructive is glogster.com, there is and edu version of Glogster and is what I recommend, being monitored and student-safe. Teachers create a virtual class of up to two hundred students and sign the up to Glogster. Glogster is a website where you can create virtual posters that you can personalize to your taste instead of tacking paper on posterboards time after time. You can then post your informative, animated poster for the rest of the class to see. Teachers can use Glogster to create virtual posters as study guides for upcoming tests. Or you can assign students projects, utilizing Glogster. Students could create Glogs (the name of the animated poster) on a subject such as Cell Processes and post on the Glog everything they know about cells, making the perfect, “green” poster that meets the curriculum, but is more appealing to students.

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 * Note: This website requires you to sign in and therefore you must have a TeacherTube account. Also, this website is slow, it may take some time.