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Let start with the idea behind creating a lesson using Edu.Glogster.

Where to start? We will start with thinking about outcomes. What knowledge or skills should your students have at the end of your lesson? Think about a map: When you plan to go somewhere, the first thing you put into Yahoo/Google Maps is the place you are going. You zoom in and focus on that specific place Once you can picture on the map where that is, you can start to imagine ways to get there. Maybe you know some of the roads or landmarks. Maybe you have been to another location near there. You recall your past travels in the area. If you have never been there before you might look at some of the travel pictures and websites that are found on the left bar to the side of the map.

Now you are ready to think about getting there. The first thing you are going to do is to click Get Directions. You will now enter where you are starting from. Sound familiar? This is how we should plan lessons. You decide what outcome you want from your student, which is where you are going. You look briefly at the outcome you want to create. You might have touched on this topic in prior lessons or it might be a brand new topic so you will have to orient your students. These are all thoughts for the very beginning of your lesson.

Your next focus should be where your students are now. You need to discover what they already know before you teach them anything new. If you don’t know where they are starting from they will probably get lost right away so find out. Maybe you’ll want to do a pre-test or a brainstorming session. Students could write you a letter telling you what they know or they could take a survey.

The path to your destination is now at hand. How will you get there? Will you take the shorter path that has lots of stop lights along the way? Will you take the highways that travel at higher speeds but may actually be a longer distance traveled? What will traffic be like; specifically think about what student’s lives will be like when you cross this topic. Will there be a break in the schedule, is testing around the corner? Given all these factors, now start plotting your path to the learning outcomes by finding ways to make it more pleasurable without getting lost along the way. This is where technology comes in. Find a point or points in the lesson where technology is a facilitator of knowledge and brings the learner into the topic by giving then ownership and independence. Lets explore some ways we can incorporate Glogster, Wikis and Google Docs into a lesson. I have provided a lesson plan format you may use or you may use one you already have in place. These are lesson plans provided by NETS/ISTE

Directed Lesson Plan: Open-ended Lesson Plan:

Here are some ways that teachers have used glogster in my school:


 * 1) As an introduction lesson at the beginning of the year.
 * 2) After reading a book, students made a poster identifying main topics the teacher wanted covered.
 * 3) As a way to teach grammar - English and foreign language.
 * 4) To portray Antisemitism during the holocaust.
 * 5) To create a poster about a country.
 * 6) To create a family tree, specifically this was in a foreign language to learn sentence structure.
 * 7) To highlight specific features of an invention.

What do you think the outcomes were for each of these lessons?