Standard+2

Glogster is a web 2.0 tool for creating an online, interactive multi-media poster. **Standard 2**: Teachers know how children grow.  The teacher understands how children with broad ranges of ability learn and provides instruction that supports their intellectual, social, and personal development.

**Evidence 1**: A Glogster and a Rubric for evaluation

 Here is the Glogster I made about baseball and a Glogster made by one of my students. media type="custom" key="19094364" media type="custom" key="19094374"



**Rationale 1**: This Glogster was developed to show 5th grade students how a Glog can be used to present information on a topic. A Glog is a great way to incorporate various forms of mulitimedia, including audio, video, text, links and images. In order to make a Glog, students need to know how to download video and images onto their computer as well as how to embed videos and pictures into a website. When students have acquired these skills, they will be able to successfully create a Glog.

The creation of this Glogster was important to my development as a teacher, because it taught me the prerequisite skills needed to use Glogster with 5th grade students. I also was able to incorporate various forms of multimedia for an impressive presentation.


 * KSD **

2.K.2 The teacher understands that students’ physical, social, emotional, moral, and cognitive development influence learning and knows how to address these factors when making instructional decisions. //Students tend to like creating and sharing content about topics that they already know something about. Having students create a Glog on a topic that is of interest to them will give the students an advantage. //

2.S.1 The teacher assesses individual and group performance in order to design instruction that meets learners’ current needs in each domain (cognitive, social, emotional, moral, and physical) and that leads to the next level of development. //Knowing that students have the necessary skills to begin using Glogster would be the first consideration before starting a project like this. Since each Glogster will be unique to the learner, some students may need more guidance and assistance than others.//

2.D.1 The teacher appreciates individual variation at each developmental level and shows respect for the diverse talents of all learners, and is committed to help them develop self-confidence and competence. //Using a rubric to help students see ahead of time what they will need to accomplish in the Glogster project will help students to feel confident that they will know what to do.// //Knowing that some students will need more assistance than others, I would incorporate peer groups to work with each other so that they have peers to go to for additional help. //