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style="">OPLIN 4Cast #164: Glogster<br>
</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">February 10, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span class="grame"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">4casting technologies that could have an
impact on
public libraries.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></h1>
<p><a href="http://www.glogster.com/" target="_blank">Glogster </a>is
the new
way to make online posters. Will it replace the difficult-to-carry 50
cent poster boards?</p>
<p>Students are using it in the classroom, inserting their own
graphics, sounds
and videos. It looks a bit like PowerPoint on steroids, but it's just
one
page (not multiple slides) and is reachable by a URL. The glog can be
public or private, and is very customizable. While it may load slowly
at
first, once loaded, the components seem to react quickly.</p>
<p>Why this may be important to libraries: As students come in to
create
these, they may have some issues composing their glogs. The free,
online editing
is a bit clunky. Also, the upload feature will require them to bring
images, sounds, etc. on their flash drives (or they can find them
online).</p>
<p>To demonstrate Glogster, we created <a
href="http://bobbigalvin.glogster.com/edit/oplin/">this page</a> that
contains
all of the details and links.</p>
<p><b><i>Cool fact:</i></b><br>
It took about 20 minutes for me to add graphics, picture frames, and
e-mail and
hyperlinks to <a href="http://bobbigalvin.glogster.com/oplin/"
target="_blank">this
hideous page</a>, but it was fairly easy, fast and free.<span style="">
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Bobbi Galvin
OPLIN Customer Relations & Support
P: 1-888-966-7546
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