The site, Glogster.com is an excellent place for projects with ELA because you can create your own posters online! I'm sure this would work for other content areas such as Science or History for fact based reports. What is so captivating about the site is its usability. The posters are interactive; you can include video and music files which would be impossible with traditional paper posters. It's incredibly easy to upload photos and pick from their wide range of stickers, images, backgrounds, fonts, and colors to give your poster its own pizzaz.
For example, see the poster to your left that was created for a report on Harriet Tubman. Through Glogster, you can engage a student's prior knowledge or scaffold prior knowledge into your own presentation. This technology would also be great for generating posters that you create as a class such as one that highlights writer moves or things that students should remember for an upcoming exam. I've seen Glogster used in middle school classes and it was well received by the students. I would recommend working through the education version of Glogster, as some posters on the regular edition might be inappropriate for school. Either way, the site is free and for a fee can be used by entire school systems or individualized classes. Check out the site and enjoy! 
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