Exploring Glogster and Learning Management Systems

Making a Glogster

 

  
For my second presentation, I decided to make a Glogster.  Glogster is an interactive poster format and provides the ability to share a large quality of material in one digital poster.  Glogster could be used in both an academic setting or workplace setting.  I could see using this in the future for poster presentations for education purposes.  A Glogster goes one step further than a simple poster by allowing links to videos, websites, and use of audio.  I really think if would provide an interactive and engaging way to present education or even research in the future.  This is a  link to website Technology meets Education, which discusses using Glogster in education.

Glogster in the Classroom

  
Below is a 90 second video on how to use Glogster.

Learning Management Systems

This past week also included the exploration of Learning Management Systems (LMS) for both academic settings and workplace settings.  I focused more on exploring the academic LMS, while it seems more of my fellow classmates focused on workplace LMS.  I really enjoyed reading the forum posts.  There were great conversations and input on the current use of workplace LMS at St. Francis and IU Health.  It seems for the workplace there was great discussion on accessibility of using LMS and the use of them at home versus work.  In exploring LMS for my forum post, I really began to think about how complex the process is of selecting an LMS.  Furthermore, trying to find an LMS which will uphold the constant changes in technology is also complex.  In my research, I found a great web article which discusses selecting an LMS and gives some questions to ask when selecting one.  

 Education Week: How to choose the right learning management system

As I have began to use various Web 2.0 tools during the class such as blogs, Wiki's, varoius presentation tools, integrating these into LMS is a necessity. The different LMS such as Moodle and Blackboard seem to be advancing and incorporating these into their LMS.  I also explored Canvas which is an LMS by Instructure, this is an LMS which was founded in 2008 and launched in 2011.  Below is the link to their website.  A couple quick features I liked about Canvas was the ability to audio/video record and the app center which allows integration of various Web 2.0 tools.  

Canvas by Instructure