cameras

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE DO NOT USE ANY WEBSITES, WEB 2.0, ETC!!!

The challenge is to think of one way to use digital cameras or camcorders in your classroom! Think about what you are teaching, could you think of a way to enhance learning using the cameras? Many have camcorders in your class, what could you use it for during the unit you are on or about to teach? Or what have you done this year? FYI there is a website qik.com that allows you to stream to internet from camera phone, so if you didn't have a camcorder this is an option that I have used many times!

These are two ways my kids have used it this year: 1. Digital Cameras - the kids found fractional representations and took pictures and put them in a scrapblog/scrapbook. example: http://mmsroom207.wikispaces.com/fractionscrapblogs (the 3rd one used digital pics from her camera) 2. Digital Camcorders - in my exploratory class the students took a current event and recorded a news broadcast. Then we used windows movie maker (which is on every windows XP computer - the one you are on now probably!) to make a news broadcast. This one was more time consuming :-)


 * IDEAS FROM YOU!**
 * Allowing the kids to take their own pictures are great for writing prompts
 * Students can make their own commercials for an invented product with camcorders. Especially when learning persuasive techniques & persuasive writing
 *  I use digital images that are used as writing prompts. The last picture used for a descriptive writing assignment was of the world's ugliest man.
 * The students must take a minimum of 10 photos showing prepositions in nature. Make captions of the prepositions
 * A digital camera would be perfect for a scavenger hunt for polygons. A list of several polygons could be given to the student. The student would provide pictures of each of the polygons. It would certainly get the students to see the geometric designs in our surroundings.
 * Student can take pictures of simple machines and create a Powerpoint presentation to show examples.
 * I would like to take pictures of the students and then have them place their pictures by famous places in Europe.
 * I could have had the students go around school to find examples of erosion, weathering, weather vs. climate study, states of water, types of clouds, etc using the scrapblog as well.
 * I use a camera weekly to enhance language with my student who is deaf. We take a picture of her work experience at the zoo then we use the picture to describe her activity in a journal

Just send me an email with one or two sentences on how you would use this in your classroom!

Links to sites the have suggestions on how to use digital cameras in the classroom: [] [] Kathy Schrock's suggestions (she's a tech genius)[] []