Westborough, MA, May 13, 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 DetentionSlip.org, widely regarded as the web’s #1 site for education news, and commonly referred to as the “PerezHilton.com of school news”. The companies will partner to present a contest, called “What’s Wrong With This Picture?” where teachers and students are invited to create Glogs - or digital posters - showing how the economy has affected conditions in their classroom.
Crowded classrooms? Outdated text books? Beat-down sports equipment? With low funding for public schools brought on by the economic crisis, the contest asks “what is affecting you most?” Teachers and students have a chance to show the world what they feel is the biggest problem at their school using photos, video, music - whatever elements they want to express their feelings.
Entries are being accepted now through Friday, May 29th. 5 finalists will be selected and announced on DetentionSlip.org on June 1st. Public voting will be held till June 12th; a public vote will determine the contest winner, who will receive an electronic blackboard from SMART! SMART Board interactive whiteboards bring a whole new level of interactivity to any classroom. The contest winner will be announced Friday, June 12th.
Glogster EDU presents free, dynamic web-building tools in a private web environment specifically geared toward education, which gives educators tools for discussion and feedback to create a productive and collaborative environment. For “What’s Wrong with This Picture?” students and educators are invited to use photos, text, video, audio, music, voice, special effects, links, designs and more to express their feelings regarding the state of their school, and even to offer suggestions for solving the problem.
To enter, teachers can simply visit the Glogster EDU site - register your classroom and get your students to start Glogging!
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“This contest gives teachers and students a completely unique way of expressing their thoughts and feelings about budget cuts in their school,” said Selma Smailagic, community manager for Glogster EDU “With more than 250,000 students and teachers around the world using Glogster.com/edu, we know that creativity and self expression is more important now than ever.”
“DetentionSlip has a track record of exposing truths about the American education system, from social issues to scandals,” said Anthony David Adams, founder of DetentionSlip.org “Glogster EDU, and this contest, offer educators and their pupils a chance to share their experiences with the world, in a truly meaningful way.”
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.
About DetentionSlip.org
Founded in early 2008, DetentionSlip.org is a United States-based online media company focused on delivering entertaining daily news related to public education. Created by two former high school underground newspaper co-publishers as a hobby, DetentionSlip.org has risen in just a year to mainstream status - being named to the Top 25 Blogs of 2009 by Time Magazine.