For those of you who regularly use Glogster with your students, I have some bad news: Glogster's educator version (edu.glogster.com) is no longer free. To my surprise when I attempted to log in and teach a lesson this week, I was prompted to choose a service level and pay the appropriate fee. Glogster's educator version now has three options:
1. Teacher Lite allows teachers to manage up to 50 student accounts for $29.95 per year. This is comparable to the free teacher version that existed up until about a week ago. They did throw in a few more perks including access to the data and drawing tools and removing all advertising.
2. Teacher Premium allows management of up to 200 students per year for $99. This version also includes a few more tools such as the ability to modify usernames and project and portfolio management.
3. School Premium is a multilicense for schools to manage an unlimited number of students. The cost is $2 per student per year.
While Glogster's public version (www.glogster.com) is still free, the content there can be inappropriate and all users have to be 13 to create an account. Teachers can still sign-up for a free educator account, but they can no longer add and manage student accounts. If your students used Glogster in the past, you may also want to consider alternative free web tools available to meet your goals.
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