Glogster Edu online environment to design interactive posters

Definition by Wikipedia:

Glogster is an online tool that allows users to create free interactive posters, or Glogs. A "Glog", short for "graphics blog", is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content.

Advantages:

• It is free
• It is visually appealing and offers users lots of options for designing their glogs.
• Stimulates, imagination and creativity : users may inserts text, images, photos, audio , videos, special effects and other elements into their glogs to generate a multimedia online creation.
• Fosters teamwork and collaboration with classmates
• Sharing: 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.
• Private, secure, safe virtual working.
• Unlimited shelf life
  
  

Disadvantages: 

• Registration is not optional
• IMPORTANT: to avoid young learners' registration, teachers can open a class account and students can work simultaneously with it.

Further reading:

• Short video tutorial shows you the basic steps in creating a glog http://youtu.be/MvC47fUANLk
• More video tutorials

https://sites.google.com/site/rspscomputerlab/all-about-glogster

• Wiki http://teachingnlearning.wikispaces.com/Glogster

 
Well, Stannar Russell a principal lecturer in Multimedia/ICT at the University of Wesminster and has done a video tutorial to help you with Glogster tools. Click on  the link below the image to watch it :-) 

 http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/glogster/index.html

If you have visited the section About me in this blog, you can see that I have added an interactive poster using Glogster.