Using Glogster

I've wanted to try this all year.  We finally are getting a chance to do it.  I let the kids go out and create the background of their glog.  We played with some of the features....just enough to get them really into it, and then I had them get out of the program. There was lots of grumbling going on.  Now that they knew what they could do, I had them draw a "map" of their glog.   The topic was butterflies.  They know a lot about butterflies, we have lots of pictures and some videos.  They told me the glog is better than writing a paper because it's on the computer and the computer is fun.  (They wrote their paper on the computer...guess that doesn't count!)

Butterfly Research

Since we have butterfly larva and are getting to witness the life cycle of a painted lady butterfly firsthand, we are researching butterflies.  We've already read one short book, currently reading Butterfly Battle, a Magic School Bus book, and have read a couple of web sites.  The students will compile all their notes into a paper complete with bibliography.  They will also create a glog about butterflies.  We were lucky enough to catch some larva turning into chrysalis today with the time elapse camera set at 30 seconds.  We have some fabulous pictures to use.  The bibliography is being compiled as we research and the bibliography is easy thanks to www.easybib.com.