21st Century Poster Projects

When introducing 21st Century learning to teachers, I often reference Heidi Hayes Jacobs when she states that the idea is not to integrate technology, but to replace dated forms of assessment or product. No one is looking to add to the mounds of work placed on a teacher's plate, but what we do want to do is move from the old way of showing knowledge to a more updated way. One way to do this is to replace the yearly "poster project" with GlogsterEdu.

The benefits of doing an electronic poster are many, but a few key points include using multimedia (video and audio) to share ideas and meeting the students needs by addressing the hunger for real world assessment.  I have never once been asked to create a poster or flyer by hand to share with the educational community.  I'd be hard pressed to find someone who does, but creating an ad or informational piece of literature digitally?  That is what is real.

For some ideas on what students have already created on GlogsterEdu, check out examples from all subject areas on their Categories page.