Contest Offers Ways to Show Economy's Effect on Classrooms

Contest Offers Ways to Show Economy's Effect on Classrooms

Glogster EDU and DetentionSlip.org Announce "What's Wrong With This Picture?" Contest

Glogster EDU, the education platform from Glogster.com, announces a partnership with DetentionSlip.org, the education news site with the entertaining twist. The companies will present a contest called "What's Wrong With This Picture?" in which teachers and students are invited to create Glogs - or digital posters - showing how the economy has affected conditions in their classroom.

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 to offer suggestions for solving the problem.

Entries are being accepted now through Friday, May 29th. Five finalists will be selected and announced on DetentionSlip.org on Monday, June 1st. Public voting, held until June 12th, will determine the contest winner, who will receive an electronic blackboard from SMART! The contest winner will be announced Friday, June 12th.

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. 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 was named to the Top 25 Blogs of 2009 by Time Magazine.