Glogster

For our explorer project my students researched an explorer then created a Glog to share that information with students. Originally I planned on giving them just a week to find the information and put together their Glogs. Things did not go quite as planned because of the many loading issues we are experiencing with Glogster. Several students have lost their work because when trying to save it somehow the screen gets stuck and you just see it "loading" after 10 minutes I told them to just exit out of Internet Explorer. For some students this wasn't a big deal since they didn't have too much on their Glog, however, for one or two students they were almost done! One student had to start over 4 times and yesterday asked if he could do an alternative assignment not using Glogster. I told him we are going to try again Monday. Karen suggested I try using Glogster as a station and only have 4-5 students on it at a time... we still experienced the same issue. I have emailed Glogster and I am waiting for a respose. I have had 3 students finish their Glogs successfully.We were just hoping and crossing our fingers when it came time to save.

As we begin using more and more Web 2.0 tools we need to make sure our district servers and computers can handle it. I love Glogster, however, now I am more relunctant to use it again due to all of the problems. For the next project I need to have a plan A and a plan B in the event something goes wrong.