Using Glogster in the Spanish Classroom

How can you get students more interested and involved in the lesson? How can you give them a fun learning experience? How can you foster their creative side? How can you incorporate technology in your lesson? Well, Glogster is the answer to all these questions.

Having created my own glog, I can tell you that it is fun and there are lots of possibilities for incorporating its use into the classroom. What makes Glogster really great is that you create a secure virtual classroom for your students where you can monitor all their work. There are so many different choices for creating a glog that students can definitely express their creativity any way they choose. Students can make audio recordings using Audacity or Podcasts and then integrate them into their glog. In the same way, they can download video clips or generate their own.

Adding Glogster to a lesson plan also helps to cover the following learning standards:
Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions
Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics
Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language
Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting
Standard 5.2: Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.

My glog, El resaurante de la profesora, is a teaching tool for a well-liked theme covered in Spanish 2: el restaurante. I gathered images of popular Spanish foods, included sites that cover Spanish food and restaurant vocabulary (with audio), added a Spanish joke, and finished with a video and writing prompt as an assessment tool. The glog is in Spanish, so if you don't speal Spanish, it tells you to click on the text boxes. I hope my students, and my proferos!, will en
joy it. :)

Here is the link to "El restaurante de la profesora:" http://laprofesoradepensilvania.glogster.com/El-restaurante-de-la-profesora/