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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Thing #7

The technology piece that I have been thinking a lot about this week is a document camera. I was recently given one for my classroom, and it has been a great deal of fun. When I am reading a book to my students, I can quickly put the book under the document camera, and all the students can see the story. We were working on writing BCR's this week, and I put some samples of strong BCR's right on my smartboard, without having to scan them into the computer.

3 comments:

  1. sounds as if you know how to leverage tech to help kids

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  2. We have a doc camera that I tried to use to grab photos of book covers for my blog a while ago. It never really worked well for me. Since I teach computer and don't use a lot of paper I haven't found any other use for the doc camera but some of our teachers love it. It might be a great way to show illustrations or a graphic novel or something....

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  3. Our mentors and instructional facilitators LOVE to tell us about the wonders of the document camera! I can only begin to imagine the endless classroom applications. I am so jealous of schools that have them and/or SMART boards. We have one of each, I think, although they are almost always being used by the mentors/facilitators for professional development.

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