Poster+Making+in+the+Digital+Age

Tired of students creating the same old posters and display boards to share their information year after year? Why not try utilizing some online tools to create digital posters? Information can now be stored totally electronically and have fantastic effects! Glogster is one tool we will explore to help students share their information through text and pictures in a creative way. Next we will move to Big Huge Labs where images either found on the internet or taken by students with digital cameras can come to life and make a visual impact. Finally, we will explore how to embed/insert these files into a wikispace page as an example of how to publish student work.

Glogster

website: [|http://edu.glogster.com] create an educator's account (at a later date) student accounts are random - they may change their password once they log in teacher can view and change student account info from their log in various tools embed into wikispaces (change ratio to fit) media type="youtube" key="qW5SSn9nno0" height="362" width="455"

How can this be used in the classroom?

Examples: [] [] http://sgseminar.wikispaces.com/ http://sgasdk4tech.wikispaces.com/

Big Huge Labs

website: [|http://bighugelabs.com] create an account (you can make it an educator's account at a later time - scan badge) various projects that can be created can use digital photos or online images save projects to computer then upload to wiki

How can this be used in the classroom?

Wikispaces

website: http://www.wikispaces.com create an account create your own wiki for your classroom/class start off by adding content yourself - invite students later if you think they are ready (See John or Kristen)

Embedding - You may embed your Glog directly into a Wikispace - The last minute of the tutorial above explains this process

Uploading Images - If the option to save the project to your computer is available, save the image file to My Pictures - If the option to save is not available, right click somewhere on the finished project and choose "Save Picture As" - Save the picture to My Pictures - While in editing mode in Wikispaces, choose File from the editor bar - Choose to "Upload Files" and locate where you saved your project - Once you have uploaded it to Wikispaces, you again click on File and this time just choose the file you would like to add - Make sure your cursor is where you want the file to be inserted, you may also drag the picture to where you want it afterwards