Glossi

Glossi is a free online publication tool that allows you to create digital magazines from your desktop, mobile device, or IPad. Users are able to easily incorporate different types of multi-media to enhance their Glossi by including images, photos, videos, animations, links and even audio from Soundcloud with no design skills necessary. After signing up and confirming your FREE account, students will have the ability demonstrate their learning by creating a new, sleek, polished, real world e-magazine that fosters creativity, innovation, communication, and decision making.  Glossi provides several features, but some of my favorites include the following:

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     Glossi Provided Page Templates

o   When you begin creating a Glossi, there are a plethora of page layouts that users are able to utilize.  These template pages take the headache out of organizing images, videos, and text to create a professional look.   These layouts can be adjust of built from scratch by using the “Custom” layout.

·         Usability of the Glossi Editor

o   The Glossi editor allows users to manipulate any page by adding, deleting, and manipulating the page set-up to easily get the look and layout you are trying to achieve.  While editing a page text boxes, images, videos, and audio can be added and resized.  Glossi also allows users to “clone” pages to easily re-create and add a page that has been added or edited. 

·         Glossi Images/Clippings

o   When adding images to your Glossi, users have the ability to add images from their computer or find them using Google or another website.  When images are added, Glossi help you organize these images into a “My Clippings” folder.  Once the images are added, you simply can drag and drop photos to where you would like them in your publication.  Glossi also provides Stock Images that include Backgrounds, Effects & Textures, Frames & Borders, Numbers & Symbols, Photos, and Speech Bubbles. 

·         Sharing Capabilities

o   When a Glossi is published, you have the choice to make it listed or unlisted (in a school setting, I would suggest going with the unlisted option).  Once you click “publish” you will receive an embed code to use on a web page or blog, the ability to share via other social media sites, or simply grab the link to your Glossi to share with others through email. 

If you are interested in creating your own Glossi, check out the screencast below or contact an ITF to assist you and your students!

Happy magazine making!