Glogster
Encyclopedia
Glogster is a social network
that allows users to create free interactive posters, or glogs. A glog
, short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content. Glogster was founded in 2007. Currently this social network has over one million registered users. The majority of the Glogster community are teenagers .
Glogster provides an environment to design interactive posters. The user inserts text, images, photos, audio (MP3
), videos, special effects and other elements into their glogs to generate a multimedia online creation. Glogster is based on flash
elements. Posters can be shared with other users on the site, embedded in external wikis or blogs, and shared via many social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Glogs can also be exported and saved to computer-compatible formats.
Users can integrate dynamic multi-sensory resources into traditionally text-oriented tasks.
Glogster EDU
was launched in 2009 to serve the educational community. Glogster EDU allows teachers and pupils to use glogs as instructional aids and share their Glogs in safe, private virtual classroom.
At the time of its establishing Glogster was inspired partly by classic paper posters and generally by the worldwide poster pop-culture of teenagers. At that time boring and “orthogonal” internet was another inspiration. The objective was to enable unlimited creative self-expression.
As of 2011, Glogster has offices in Boston
, San Francisco, Prague
, Colombo
, Singapore
, Tokyo
and Silicon Valley
. In early November, Glogster announced a remodel of their website that will be revealed later this month.
Teachers privately register their students and may create a safe virtual class with as many as two hundred students. Glogs are private and are made accessible to others at the discretion of the teacher. Glogster EDU is a kind of learning management system. Teachers can create projects with their students across other schools. Moreover, the Glogs may be developed under various categories, such as mathematics, or physics: for example http://edu.glogster.com/glogpedia/. During a lesson teachers respond and assess pupils’ works. The platform is secure, as it may be accessed only by a teacher who fully supervises his/her students’ activities and determines which Glogs are made public.
Users have four options for using Glogster EDU: Single Free, Teacher Light, Teacher Premium, and School Premium. A Single Free account is a free individual account for teachers or students. Single Free users can use the Glog creation tool to create private Glogs. The Teacher Light, Teacher Premium, and School Premium platforms are paid. The key differences among the paid platforms are the number of student accounts, student management tools, class creation, Glog project functionality, and the ability to share students across an entire school. The Teacher Light and Premium platforms also include additional Glog features, such as the ability to draw over a Glog, upload data, and use special Glogster EDU media galleries.
Over 600,000 teachers and 6,900,000 students worldwide are currently registered on Glogster EDU.
In the near future, the EDU Glogster development team will design and release an enhanced version of Glogster EDU 2.0 which should further meet the basic mission of this site to educate young students and prepare them to use the benefits of the Internet and multimedia
applications.
, one of the world's leading Internet portals focusing on educational media. This partnership allows the students and teachers who are using Glogster EDU to share their glogs on the popular server School Tube and import multimedia from SchoolTube
to their glogs.
Since May 2009 Glogster EDU also cooperates with DetentionSlip.org, an online media
company that focuses on news related to public education.
Web Expo trade fair.
Discovery Educator Network voted Glogster EDU #1 education tool over 15 other sites in the 2011 DEN March Madness Mashup.
Educators in the WeAreTeachers online community also voted Glogster EDU a top five “Teachers Select“ in EdNET’s Best for 2011.
Social network
A social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "nodes", which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.Social...
that allows users to create free interactive posters, or glogs. A glog
Glog
Glog may refer to:*a graphics blog or graphical blog; online rich media poster*Mulled wine, also called Glögg*G-Log, software company...
, short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content. Glogster was founded in 2007. Currently this social network has over one million registered users. The majority of the Glogster community are teenagers .
Glogster provides an environment to design interactive posters. The user inserts text, images, photos, audio (MP3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
), videos, special effects and other elements into their glogs to generate a multimedia online creation. Glogster is based on flash
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
elements. Posters can be shared with other users on the site, embedded in external wikis or blogs, and shared via many social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Glogs can also be exported and saved to computer-compatible formats.
Users can integrate dynamic multi-sensory resources into traditionally text-oriented tasks.
Glogster EDU
Glogster EDU
Glogster EDU is an education platform that was developed from Glogster. It is a new kind of social network.Glogster EDU is a web 2.0 platform which enables users to create virtual posters. While the original version of Glogster is used mainly by teenagers, Glogster EDU is intended mainly for...
was launched in 2009 to serve the educational community. Glogster EDU allows teachers and pupils to use glogs as instructional aids and share their Glogs in safe, private virtual classroom.
History
Glogster was launched in December 2007 and Glogster EDU in October 2009. Since its founding, Glogster has experienced rapid growth and now has users in more than 200 countries and territories. Even though the portal is targeted primarily at young people, many of the users are aged 25 or over. At present, there are over 10.4 million Glogs and over 8 million Gloggers on the website.At the time of its establishing Glogster was inspired partly by classic paper posters and generally by the worldwide poster pop-culture of teenagers. At that time boring and “orthogonal” internet was another inspiration. The objective was to enable unlimited creative self-expression.
As of 2011, Glogster has offices in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, San Francisco, Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, Colombo
Colombo
Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...
, Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
and Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
. In early November, Glogster announced a remodel of their website that will be revealed later this month.
Glogster Commandos
The Commando is a group of users who are selected by the Glogster Team for their enthusiasm and activity on Glogster. Users nominate one another for The Commando, and the Glogster Team selects approximately 200 users to join. Commandos receive special privileges on the site, including first access to new features and control over the Commando G-Lab forum. The Glogster Team also relies on the Commandos for user feedback and suggestions for site improvements.Contests
Glogster regularly holds contests for its users in conjunction with major brands, bands, and musicians. Past contest partners include The Black Eyed Peas, Greyson Chance, Meez, Willow Smith, OneRepublic, Tokio Hotel, A Fire Inside, The All-American Rejects, Karmaloop, ModCloth, and more. Users create Glogs in accordance with a contest theme, and winners receive prizes such as a message from the band, merchandise, iPods, and gift certificates.Glogster EDU
The growing popularity of Glogster helped spawn Glogster EDU to assist teachers in providing dynamic and interactive teaching experience. Glogster EDU is intended primarily for pupils and teachers in primary and secondary schools.Teachers privately register their students and may create a safe virtual class with as many as two hundred students. Glogs are private and are made accessible to others at the discretion of the teacher. Glogster EDU is a kind of learning management system. Teachers can create projects with their students across other schools. Moreover, the Glogs may be developed under various categories, such as mathematics, or physics: for example http://edu.glogster.com/glogpedia/. During a lesson teachers respond and assess pupils’ works. The platform is secure, as it may be accessed only by a teacher who fully supervises his/her students’ activities and determines which Glogs are made public.
Users have four options for using Glogster EDU: Single Free, Teacher Light, Teacher Premium, and School Premium. A Single Free account is a free individual account for teachers or students. Single Free users can use the Glog creation tool to create private Glogs. The Teacher Light, Teacher Premium, and School Premium platforms are paid. The key differences among the paid platforms are the number of student accounts, student management tools, class creation, Glog project functionality, and the ability to share students across an entire school. The Teacher Light and Premium platforms also include additional Glog features, such as the ability to draw over a Glog, upload data, and use special Glogster EDU media galleries.
Over 600,000 teachers and 6,900,000 students worldwide are currently registered on Glogster EDU.
In the near future, the EDU Glogster development team will design and release an enhanced version of Glogster EDU 2.0 which should further meet the basic mission of this site to educate young students and prepare them to use the benefits of the Internet and multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
applications.
Cooperation with educational services
In June 2009 Glogster EDU announced a cooperative partnership with SchoolTubeSchoolTube
-Overview:SchoolTube is a video sharing website for K-12 education. It was created in response to large-scale access restriction of mainstream video-sharing sites in public schools in the United States. Launched in 2007, the company is based in St...
, one of the world's leading Internet portals focusing on educational media. This partnership allows the students and teachers who are using Glogster EDU to share their glogs on the popular server School Tube and import multimedia from SchoolTube
SchoolTube
-Overview:SchoolTube is a video sharing website for K-12 education. It was created in response to large-scale access restriction of mainstream video-sharing sites in public schools in the United States. Launched in 2007, the company is based in St...
to their glogs.
Since May 2009 Glogster EDU also cooperates with DetentionSlip.org, an online media
Mass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
company that focuses on news related to public education.
List of partnerships of Glogster and Glogster EDU and the goal of cooperation
- EdmodoEdmodoEdmodo is a social learning network for teachers, students, and parents.- Design :Edmodo's user interface has been described as similar to Facebook. Using Edmodo, teachers can post grades and assign homework to students. Students can then submit the homework and view their grade. The transmission...
(Since 2010) – Glogster embeds Glogs into their services. - WikispacesWikispacesWikispaces is a hosting service based in San Francisco, California. Launched in March 2005, Wikispaces is owned by Tangient LLC and is among the largest wiki hosts, competing with PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, and Google Sites .Private wikis with advanced features for businesses, non-profits and...
(Since 2010) – Glogster embeds Glogs into their services. - TeacherTubeTeacherTubeTeacherTube is a video sharing website similar to, and based on, YouTube. It is designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources such as video, audio, documents, photos, groups and blogs. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching...
(Since 2010) – Glogster EDU has a Teacher Tube partner profile. They list Glogster among other services of similar type. - TinyPicTinyPicTinyPic is a photo and video sharing service, owned and operated by Photobucket.com , that allows users to upload, link and share, images and videos on the Internet. The idea is similar to URL shortening in which each uploaded image is given a relatively short internet address...
(Since 2009) – option to log into the service and insert TinyPic images when creating Glogs. - Schooltube (Since 2009) - Glogster EDU has a SchoolTube partner profile. SchoolTube lists Glogster as an organizational partner.
Awards
Project Glogster.com was selected the fourth most successful web start-up project in 2008 at the PraguePrague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
Web Expo trade fair.
Discovery Educator Network voted Glogster EDU #1 education tool over 15 other sites in the 2011 DEN March Madness Mashup.
Educators in the WeAreTeachers online community also voted Glogster EDU a top five “Teachers Select“ in EdNET’s Best for 2011.