Here is an example of how we are using Glogster in a lesson...
Relevant and Innovative Learning Scenario - Planning
1. Target Audience – 5th -12th grade students
2. Materials –
· List of possible items to go into activity bag (separated by age range)
· Computers w/printer (internet connected)
· Smart board/Elmo projector
· Journals (may be done online)
· Phone books
3. Objectives – Students will:
· Discuss the benefits of the service-learning project.
· Design posters to advertise, promote, & present.
· Formulate informative speeches, business letters, & formal emails.
· Analyze their feelings, thoughts, and actions through journaling.
4. Procedure –
· Informal discussion on the purpose of service-learning and giving back to their community as well as providing additional ideas, suggestions, and comments on how it or parts of the project can be improved.
· Review mini-lessons on; how to use reference materials, writing informal paragraphs, presenting a speech, and to speak over the phone when asking for information. (Permission slip sent out to appear in media outlets & volunteer offers).
· Students develop a finalized list for activity bags and formulate methods to acquire items within small groups.
· Reference phone book and local newspapers to help identify businesses and potential donors.
· Write letters to businesses & donors.
· Make an amateur informative “PSA” about our efforts to distribute.
· Design posters and flyers using Glogster.*
· Email & distribute media assignments to TV stations & other social media outlets.
· Organize donated items by age appropriateness, work on filling bags.
· Distribute bags with supervision from teachers & parent volunteers.
· Students will use Glogster and their journals to create final presentations.
5. Web 2.0 Tool – Glogster.com will assist our students on provide us with a template and platform to promote our project. The site will also be used to present the students’ final reflection on the project as a whole.
6. Social Participation/Social Learning – Using Facebook, Twitter, Glogster.com, etc. students, volunteers, teacher, and parents will communicate, collaborate and promote the project.
Beginning with the initial announcement: “Middle/H.S. students (or parent of one)!!! Need your help in a community service project! Cyber and/or hands-on, as little or much time as you can offer! If you’d like to be a part of this effort, Inbox me!!!
7. Making Connections – Through informal discussion students will be presented with the question(s); “how do they feel when you are forced to stay inside all day on rainy days? Or in bed with a cold or broken limb for days at a time? Now imagine if you had to stay there for months at a time, sometimes confined to a bed, small room and lobby at the most. Even with all this technology…would you get bored with the same old stuff? Do you think it would help knowing that others cared?”
8. Create/Produce – As a group the students will create activity bags to be distributed. For the classroom students will use Glogster.com to create a final poster with quotes (or the whole doc) from their journals for a final reflection on how they feel and the significance of giving back.
9. Reflection – Students will use journaling throughout the process for reflections from the initial idea to the final product. The journal will discuss how they feel the project is beneficial, their thoughts on soliciting donations, and how they felt during and after distribution. Their final entry will be the foundation to create a Glogster poster on their final thoughts to be presented to the whole class.
*the video demonstrates this step in the lesson. A after school student & his mother demonstrate here & below:
"Glogster is helping us promote our cause to a higher degree;
Students use school plus their virtual world to give back to the real world"
