Alternative+Energy+Glog

My elective class, Survey of Family and Consumer Science, learns about renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. Depending upon the size of the class, students work alone or in pairs to research information about an alternative energy source: wind energy, hydro energy, solar energy, nuclear energy, biomass energy, geothermal, and hydrogen energy. They find information from print sources in the library and also on the Internet.

They are first required to take notes. They then turn these notes into a glog at [|www.edu.glogster.com]. This is a digital poster making site where the students can add words, graphic, video, and sound to a poster. It is more fun than a regular poster. Because my elective class tends to have a large percentage of lower level learners, a glog works well because the emphasis on grammar is downplayed because the students are encourage to use short bites of information to get their idea across rather than full on paragraphs.

I have the students peer edit each other's glog.

student example: nuclear energy media type="custom" key="7784703"lower level student example: wind energy media type="custom" key="7784711"

project directions and rubric

peer review sheets

__//**Note**//__ make sure you have the educational version of glogster. This allows you privacy and you can control access to the class and who is a member. You also get a dashboard that lets you see all of the glogs in one spot. The glogs can also be uploaded into a class wiki or webpage.

When you upload the glog to your wiki or webpage it may be too big. You can adjust the size of the glog by going into the html code and changing the scale from 100 to a small number. See the code below for where it is located.



Karen Farmelo kfarmelo@ottoeldred.org Otto Eldred Jr Sr High School