Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Why I absolutely DETEST Glogster


          As most people know, we had to do a Bad Boy Media Project. In our class, when we had to choose between Glogster and Make Believe comics. Looking back now, I think the unanimous decision among the class is that we should have just done a comic instead. There are very many problems with glogster, but as this is only 2-3 paragraphs, I'm only going to highlight a few

          First of all, it was slow. Frustratingly slow. We were advised to make only one account and that everyone could work on it at the same time this way. This was false. There was only 2 periods of time when all of us worked together on one "Glog" And even then, it took us spamming the reload button for us to see what our fellow group members had edited. Another huge problem was accessibility. It took my group about 3 attempts to successfully upload a picture, and if we tried to make it our background image, that screwed everything up. It took 3 members of my group each trying twice to upload a video, and then we still had issues moving the video to the right spot.

     
          Basically, I'm just saying, to do all the kids that do this project after us a favor, DONT USE GLOGSTER. Use Prezi! Multiple people can work at the same time, and it moves fast enough to counter the wifi problem! And this isn't just my opinion, ask my entire class! If you walked in at any time of this project, you would hear someone complaining about Glogster, whether it was Lindsay Smith saying it was stupid, or Spencer saying, "I'm gonna cut Glogster into bite sized pieces and feed it to dogs!"

         On a slightly different topic, what kind of name is glogster? Like what possesses you to make you say, "I'm going to make a program called..... GLOGSTER!!!" I'm just saying.

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