Brian Gover stopped by yesterday to ask me if I had ever heard of a Glog before. I hadn’t so he went through the process of showing me. Now, I would have a hard time explaing a glog without an example, so I will show you his. http://bgover.glogster.com/Bate-Technology-Newsletter/ . He purposefully made it very busy to show off several of the features of a Glog, but you get the idea. Basically, it is one of the easiest and neatest ways of showing off content(with style) that I have come across. I’ve uploaded some screenshots at the bottom to show off the interface, which is about as point-and-click as you can get. It hosts tons of images, media players, and so on… but if that isn’t enough you can grab video straight from your webcam. It woulnd’t be hard to imagine the possibility of getting students in on the creating side of these things. They would, and will, love it! According to their site they have an EDU version. I am waiting to hear from them before putting some info about it.

Now I wasn’t truly impressed with this until JD Smith, a friend and coworker ran with the idea and created one for his science classroom. His idea… to make a page that updated with the lessons he was covering in class complete with webcam footage of the labs and things that he will be doing as the year goes on. This is truly inspiring to be coming from someone that considers himself to be “not so good” with technology. You can see his here. http://jdsmith390.glogster.com/Batescience 

Already glogging? Send us your link and we’ll show it off.  Who knows, you might score some G points for it.

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