Glogster EDU Partners with SchoolTube to Enable School-Safe File Sharing
Provides an Enhanced User Experience for Teachers and Students
06.16.2009 – Glogster EDU, the education platform from Glogster.com that provides teachers and students with a revolutionary way of expressing their mood, feelings and ideas, today announces a partnership with SchoolTube, a leading website that provides students and educators with a world-class, safe, and free media sharing environment.
The partnership allows the students and teachers using Glogster EDU - now more than 450,000 around the world - to share their Glogs using the popular SchoolTube sharing site, and also allows them to easily import multimedia elements found on the SchoolTube site into their Glogs. All student-created materials on SchoolTube must be approved by registered teachers, follow local school guidelines, and adhere to the company’s high standards. This partnership reflects Glogster EDU’s tremendous growth as an important education tool for teachers of any subject.
The Glogster EDU education program has been created in response to Glogster’s growing popularity amongst both educators and teens around the world. To date, the site’s growing mass appeal, coupled with its free, user-friendly web building tools have made Glogster EDU a helpful tool for teachers working to create a dynamic, interactive classroom experience. For more information on Glogster EDU, visit www.glogster.com/edu.
Soon to be announced is Glogster EDU 2.0, which incorporates enhanced features that will now allow teachers to capitalize on kids’ love of social networking into classroom learning. Glogster EDU is a unique web 2.0 project - sign up now and enjoy more benefits with Glogster EDU 2.0 soon!
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“We are constantly looking for ways to improve our education offering to the teachers using Glogster.com/edu,” said Selma Smailagic, community manager for Glogster EDU. “The synergies between SchoolTube and Glogster.com/EDU allows us to provide an enhanced user experience to teachers and students in a safe and fun environment.”
“We are extremely happy to be working with Glogster, and to offer our members the educational resources it offers. In addition, we are excited to offer Glogster''s global community a safe environment to share online media and the ability to integrate that media into their projects on Glogster." Andrew Arizpe, Director of Marketing for SchoolTube.
About Glogster EDU
Glogster EDU is the education platform from Glogster.com. On Glogster.com/edu, students and educators can access free, dynamic web-building tools to create virtual posters using text, images, music, voice, video, special effects, links, sounds, designs and more. Glogster EDU’s education platform presents these tools in a private web environment specifically geared toward education and presents educators with the opportunity for discussion and feedback to create a productive and collaborative environment. With Glogster EDU, educators are able to easily create accounts for students without the use of student email addresses or personal information. For more information on Glogster EDU, visit www.glogster.com/edu.
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- A Glog is a multimedia digital poster.
- Glogster EDU allows students to create and share classroom Glogs by using text, images, music, voice, video, special effects, links, sounds, designs and more.
- Over 450,000 teachers, students and classrooms around the world are using Glogster.com/EDU to incorporate web 2.0 in to classroom learning
- Features free digital learning tools helpful for teachers working to create a dynamic, interactive classroom experiences.
- Tools are presented in a private web environment making Glogster EDU safe for students of any age!
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