So I liked the Tech Department's assessment that Glogster could certainly re-energize the tired, old poster project. Big, huge labs, on the other hand, seemed to have fewer classroom applications, but was fun to explore. The material required for big, huge labs projects seemed to require less thought--essentially the program does the work for you. You can just plug in the info, choose some colors, determine a font size, and **whoosh** you've designed a movie poster or become Andy Warhol. Fun, but usually, I'm looking to go to a little deeper in assignments.
I particularly like that Glogster seemed more open-ended. While you can manipulate some of the templates and choose certain fonts or color-schemes, the students can add numerous images, manipulate them, add text, add sound, and create backgrounds. I really like the website's samples of student work for The Iliad. I would recommend checking out the student work (which looks pretty authentic). It required justification of ideas, including musical and visual choices. Very cool!
I'm going to need to play with this quite a bit more though to see how it saves. Could the kids save to the studentproj folder? Would they need an account to use it? How could the whole class see their work? I think I can figure this out, but it's going to take a little playing on the computer. The site is definitely going into my Delicious account.
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