Chemistry Project and Glogster Trouble

I am looking to do an "Adopt an Element" project using my santorosciencerocks.pbworks.com site. I would like students to each have their own page to research elements and write down their responses. I'm not sure yet, if multiple students can edit and save work at a time. It would be a very cool tool to use in my chemistry unit if it works correctly.
As far as the Glog projects, the saving problem continues. I'm not sure why only certain students are able to save immediately, while other get denied over and over. Very frustrating!

Glogs Due

Today, Glogs are due. About five of my 22 students have been having a very hard time saving. I spoke to a Glogster representative last week, and they assured me that the problem was fixed, however, these five students have continued to lose all of the new work that they add to their Glogs. I may have to extend the deadline for these students. I wonder why Glogster continues to affect these five Glogs only.

Week 5 Edublog Update

Today, the students are updating their Edublogs for the fifth state they are traveling through. They are researching about the landscape, and describing ways that weathering and erosion; by living organisms, wind, water or gravity, affect the land. Since we have started our chemistry unit, they have some identifying of vocabulary words. Students will be identifying elements versus compounds. They will also recognize objects as physically changing or chemically changing.

Update on Glogster: The "Support Team" emailed back, and fixed the saving problem. Students worked on those after they finished their Edublog updates for week 5. Phew, I'm glad that problem is fixed. Many of my students finished their Glogs and will be publishing them next week.

Glogster Problem

Today, we worked on our Glogs in first period. The Glogs looks great, and they have great information on them. My students have been very creative in the design of their Glogs. They seem to know much more then I do about working with this tool. Today, however, Glogster unexpectedly quit and would not save their work from this morning. This was very frustrating because it was supposed to be our last day in the computer lab working on this project, and many of the students had finished. Most of them lost quite a bit of their work this morning, when Glogster stopped working. I put an email into Glogster, so we will have to see what they say.

Week 4 Edublog Update

My science students completed their week 4 science tables last Thursday. It's interesting to see that many of them are catching on to the weekly Edublog updates. Very few students are still trying to catch up from previous weeks. I'm really enjoying this unit because they are able to communicate with one another outside of class via their email or blogs, and they can complete these assignments at home if they aren't in school. The week 5 edublog updates will be this week. I think that this is the last week that they will blog on the fifth state they are traveling through.

Day 1 in the lab for Glogster

My students are each creating glogster accounts and posters. They found the information on my santorosciencerocks website, and they also were given a hard copy. The directions and a rubric telling how their glogs should look, and what information needs to be shown. There is a youtube video they watched first, and then they began creating their glogs. They continued to refer to the video as needed while working on their glog posters. This project has gone well so far, however, there was a problem saving some of their glogs. The students were instructed to come up with 12 Earth systems vocabulary words, and define 6 of them. Then, they had to link pictures to their vocabulary. For some reason, the glogs wouldn't all save. The students had to either minimize the window, and try again, or log out and start all over again. We will see how tomorrow goes.

Glogster

I am in the process of setting up Glogster accounts for my students. We are approaching the end the Earth Systems unit, and the students will need to make a Glog web page to illustrate specific vocabulary from the unit. I have found that Glogster is a very self explanatory program, that I think will work as a very successful evaluation tool for this unit. I'm looking forward to starting this project next week.