Glogster

While I have loved basically all of the web 2.0 tools we have learned this semester, I really did not like Glogster very much. I played around with it for a while and it was just incredibly complicated to use. I could see uses for it if teachers were making the glogs but I think it's way too complicated for students to use (although I couldn't even figure it out). I think part of the reason I don't see much use for it and don't necessary love the idea of it is because I'm a scrapbook fanatic. I am all about making eye catching things using tangible materials. Glogster reminds me somewhat of a digital scrapbook album and I've never been a fan of those. I guess I could see how it could be more exciting to look at glogs than typical boring posters in the classroom. I also realize that educational posters could be made to hang around the room such as tools for writing a paragraph or something similar. However, I will probably continue to make things by hand and will not ask my students to create glogs because they are just too difficult to create.