Here's a cool tool that you can embed into your Moodle classroom as a web page or as a label on the main page of your course for a more "web-like" experience for your students and teachers:
Glogster is a neat little web utility that lets you create dynamic, interactive and flashy web "posters" where you can embed your own pictures, add text, video or other graphics to customize your website or classroom. Once your "glog" is created you can take that code and embed it into your Moodle using the normal embed process.
Here's what a final product might look like:
Getting Started with Glogster: check out this handy resource (and this one!)to help you learn the ropes and about their services for EDU.
Once you've played with Glogster to create your own "glog" click "save and publish". On the next page you'll be able to choose from a few formats (I prefer "Classic Glog"). Then you can give it a name and choose it's categories and add tags if you wish.
Once published you can grab the embed code for your glog so you can add it to web pages, wikis or even your Moodle. Just click "copy" to save it to your clip board.
Next, open your classroom and create a label or compose a web page. Click the toggle HTML source button (<>) on the editor and when viewing TEXT MODE just paste in your code.
It's that easy and you have just created a flashy landing page for your Moodle. Check out this example to get some ideas, but know that you can create links to classroom resources and to other parts of your classroom easily in Glogster (if those links happen to change later, just update your saved glog and the changes will post automatically where ever your glog is embedded!
Laurie Korte, Moodle Magician is to thank for this awesome, easy and fun to use tool. Check her out on Moodlemeet.ning.com.
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