EDIM 508 Week 5_Glog

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Look around. What do you see? Everywhere you look you see some sort of creative way of expression, whether it is through a movement, a noise, physical feature, or a graphical representation. As an educator, we need constantly find innovative ways of inspiring creativity. According to Howard Gardner, “creativity can be maintained by exhibiting different, equally viable solutions to a single posed problem” (Five Minds for the Future, 2007). A quick and easy way of taking any subject from a bunch of sources and compiling it into one graphical representation is by creating a Glog at edu.glogster.com. A Glog is a digitally interactive poster creating software. It allows you to embed URL links, pictures, sounds, and videos.

I plan to implement the use of my Glog into my class as a teaching tool on Geometric Shapes and Solids. The instructional purpose is to provide the students with an aesthetically appealing poster that allows them to navigate through lecture material, activities, and supportive materials, such as pictures and videos. Within my Glog, I have two embedded Prezi presentations. One Prezi is on Geometric Shapes and Area, and the other Prezi is on the Properties of Geometric Solids. I have multiple still images that act as supportive material. One of these images is a scanned and digitally manipulated image of the exact formula sheet the students get in class. I also have two supportive activities that were created through Discovery Education.  To go along with those activities, I have an embedded Khan Academy video and URL linked quiz. I also have two small animation videos that help work the student through two of the problems within the activities. Finally, there is an embedded work cited link to a Google Doc of my citations.

Besides the teaching tool aspect, I also plan to use the software as a stimulus for the creative minds of my students. By allowing the students to create his or her own Glog, they will be able to display his or her work and / or present a topic. The following High School Pennsylvania standards are some of the basic standards the students will be completing while doing a Glog:

·       1.6.11-D  Contribute to discussions.

·       1.6.11-F  Use media for learning purposes.

·       1.6.11-E  Participate in small and large group discussions and presentations.

·       3.6.10-B  Apply knowledge of information technologies of encoding, transmitting, receiving, storing, retrieving and decoding.

·       3.7.10-C  Apply basic computer operations and concepts.

·       3.7.10-E  Apply basic computer communications systems.

Here is a link to my Glog: http://jnjarrett.edu.glogster.com/geometric-shapes-and-solids/

Gardner, H.  (2007).  Five minds for the future.  Boston:  Harvard Business School Press