Glogster and Go Animate! - Week 5 - Managing e-Learning

Today we looked at two very interesting types of ICT's.  One was Glogster, Glogster is a very amusing tool and I could find myself spending hours and hours on it..  I could easily be teaching Primary School Students how to use Glogster to create a Glog instead of using a piece of Card Board and creating a poster.  I created a Glog on De Bono's Six Thinking Hats.  I uploaded images, background music and videos onto the Glog and changed the colour or Texts and Backgrounds.  I found that there were very little limitations when using this tool.  However there is the question of how advanced it is and what age group to use it for.  I would think maybe using it for at least a Year 4 class.

Here is a link to my Glog I made:  http://mon910.glogster.com/de-bonos-six-thinking-hats/

The second tool, which is one I found on my own was Go Animate!  This is a very fun animation site.  It was very easy to use, I chose my scenario, my characters and then I was able to type in the script that I would want them to say.  I found that this would be a really good tool to use to teach a class of maybe Year 3-5  students how to use this site and allow them to do group work and present their information in this way to the rest of the class.  There are some limitations I found which would be the speech is really slow and students would need to use excessive punctuation in order for it to make sense.  I also found it extremely hard to embed it onto my blog but I will continue to try and embed it here so that you all could see it.

Here is a link to my GoAnimate animation I made:  http://goanimate.com/movie/0PwjYYZpRJ6s?utm_source=linkshare