For our project on educational websites, Brittany and I decided to learn about Glogster.com. Glogster is similar to blogging, except they make everything you put down into a digital poster. It is very entertaining to choose the designs, layouts, pictures, and browse through the hundreds of videos that they have archived. Glogster can be used for classroom projects, lesson overviews, and can be adapted to fit into any curriculum. I made many cutesy and fun glogs when I was just playing around with the site, and I had a fun time doing so.
Glogster had a couple of setbacks. If you want the full and complete features that they offer, there is a $99 fee for the school year. Another thing to keep in mind is that you need to keep the focus on the information being acquired when making glogs, not just making a cool layout and design plan.
For me, making learning fun is a challenge, but it is the most effective way to teach something. If you can have kids research loads of information and construct what they found into something artistic and original, they will appreciate the knowledge more than if it was just a boring old lesson or project.
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