Glogster
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| URL | www.glogster.com |
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| Commercial? | Banner ads, referral marketing |
| Type of site | Online platform for creative expressions with social network features |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available language(s) | English, Portuguese |
| Launched | November 2007 |
| Alexa rank |  4128[1] |
| Current status | Active |
Glogster is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters, or glogs. A glog, short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content.[2] Glogster was founded in 2007. Currently this social network has over one million registered users. The majority of the Glogster community are teenagers[citation needed].
Glogster provides an environment to design interactive posters. The user inserts text, images, photos, audio (MP3), videos, special effects and other elements into their glogs to generate a multimedia online creation.[3] Glogster is based on Adobe Flash elements.[4] Posters can be shared with other users on the site, embedded in external wikis or blogs, and shared via many social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Glogs can also be exported and saved to computer-compatible formats.[5]
Users can integrate dynamic multi-sensory resources into traditionally text-oriented tasks.
Glogster EDU was launched in 2009 to serve the educational community. Glogster EDU allows teachers and pupils to use glogs as instructional aids and share their Glogs in safe, private virtual classroom.
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[edit] History
Glogster was launched in December 2007 and Glogster EDU in October 2009. Since its founding, Glogster has experienced rapid growth and now has users in more than 200 countries and territories. Even though the portal is targeted primarily at young people, many of the users are aged 25 or over. At present, there are over 10.4 million Glogs and over 8 million Gloggers on the website.
At the time of its establishing Glogster was inspired partly by classic paper posters and generally by the worldwide poster pop-culture of teenagers. At that time boring and “orthogonal” internet was another inspiration. The objective was to enable unlimited creative self-expression.
As of 2011, Glogster has offices in Boston, San Francisco, Prague, Colombo, Singapore, Tokyo and Silicon Valley. In early November, Glogster announced a remodel of their website that will be revealed later this month.
[edit] Glogster Commandos
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The Commando is a group of users who are selected by the Glogster Team for their enthusiasm and activity on Glogster. Users nominate one another for The Commando, and the Glogster Team selects approximately 200 users to join. Commandos receive special privileges on the site, including first access to new features and control over the Commando G-Lab forum. The Glogster Team also relies on the Commandos for user feedback and suggestions for site improvements.
[edit] Contests
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Glogster regularly holds contests for its users in conjunction with major brands, bands, and musicians. Past contest partners include The Black Eyed Peas, Greyson Chance, Meez, Willow Smith, OneRepublic, Tokio Hotel, A Fire Inside, The All-American Rejects, Karmaloop, ModCloth, and more. Users create Glogs in accordance with a contest theme, and winners receive prizes such as a message from the band, merchandise, iPods, and gift certificates.
[edit] Glogster EDU
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The growing popularity of Glogster helped spawn Glogster EDU to assist teachers in providing dynamic and interactive teaching experience. Glogster EDU is intended primarily for pupils and teachers in primary and secondary schools.
Teachers privately register their students and may create a safe virtual class with as many as two hundred students. Glogs are private and are made accessible to others at the discretion of the teacher. Glogster EDU is a kind of learning management system. Teachers can create projects with their students across other schools. Moreover, the Glogs may be developed under various categories, such as mathematics, or physics: for example http://edu.glogster.com/glogpedia/. During a lesson teachers respond and assess pupils’ works. The platform is secure, as it may be accessed only by a teacher who fully supervises his/her students’ activities and determines which Glogs are made public.[6]
Users have four options for using Glogster EDU: Single Free, Teacher Light, Teacher Premium, and School Premium. A Single Free account is a free individual account for teachers or students. Single Free users can use the Glog creation tool to create private Glogs. The Teacher Light, Teacher Premium, and School Premium platforms are paid. The key differences among the paid platforms are the number of student accounts, student management tools, class creation, Glog project functionality, and the ability to share students across an entire school. The Teacher Light and Premium platforms also include additional Glog features, such as the ability to draw over a Glog, upload data, and use special Glogster EDU media galleries.[7]
Over 600,000 teachers and 6,900,000 students worldwide are currently registered on Glogster EDU.[8]
In the near future, the EDU Glogster development team will design and release an enhanced version of Glogster EDU 2.0 which should further meet the basic mission of this site to educate young students and prepare them to use the benefits of the Internet and multimedia applications.[9]
[edit] Cooperation with educational services
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In June 2009 Glogster EDU announced a cooperative partnership with SchoolTube, one of the world's leading Internet portals focusing on educational media.[9] This partnership allows the students and teachers who are using Glogster EDU to share their glogs on the popular server School Tube and import multimedia from SchoolTube to their glogs.
Since May 2009 Glogster EDU also cooperates with DetentionSlip.org, an online media company that focuses on news related to public education.[3]
[edit] List of partnerships of Glogster and Glogster EDU and the goal of cooperation
- Edmodo (Since 2010) – Glogster embeds Glogs into their services.
- Wikispaces (Since 2010) – Glogster embeds Glogs into their services.
- TeacherTube (Since 2010) – Glogster EDU has a Teacher Tube partner profile. They list Glogster among other services of similar type.
- TinyPic (Since 2009) – option to log into the service and insert TinyPic images when creating Glogs.
- Schooltube (Since 2009) - Glogster EDU has a SchoolTube partner profile. SchoolTube lists Glogster as an organizational partner.
[edit] Awards
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Project Glogster.com was selected the fourth most successful web start-up project in 2008 at the Prague Web Expo trade fair.[10]
Discovery Educator Network voted Glogster EDU #1 education tool over 15 other sites in the 2011 DEN March Madness Mashup.
Educators in the WeAreTeachers online community also voted Glogster EDU a top five “Teachers Select“ in EdNET’s Best for 2011.
[edit] Financing
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The Glogster project is funded primarily from private sources. In the future the company may wish to modify their funding model. Glogster occasionally cooperates with well-known brands in competitions for the user. There is little paid advertisement on the site.
[edit] References
- ^ "Glogster - traffic statistics". Alexa Internet, Inc. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.glogster.com. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
- ^ What is glog? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary Archived 3 February 2011 at WebCite
- ^ a b Reuters, March 13, 2009. Glogster EDU and DetentionSlip.org Announce "What`s Wrong With This Picture?" Contest. Reuters. Retrieved July 5. Archived 3 February 2011 at WebCite
- ^ Arrington, Michael, December 29, 2007. Glogster - Like Geocities (in a bad way), And In Flash. TechCrunch. Retrieved July 8. Archived 3 February 2011 at WebCite
- ^ Lowensohn, Josh, January 4, 2008. Glogster brings glitter graphic blogging to the masses. WebWare. Retrieved July 1. Archived 3 February 2011 at WebCite
- ^ Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students | Text, Images, Music and Video Archived 3 February 2011 at WebCite
- ^ Glogster EDU product information | Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students Archived 3 February 2011 at WebCite
- ^ [1]. Glogster EDU. Archived at WebCite
- ^ a b PitchEngine, June 16, 2009. Glogster EDU Partners with SchoolTube to Enable School-Safe File Sharing. PitchEngine. Retrieved July 12. Archived 3 February 2011 at WebCite
- ^ WebExpo. Startup Show - soutěž pro startupy. WebExpo. Retrieved July 1. Archived 3 February 2011 at WebCite
