Document+Cameras

=Document cameras=

What is it? E//ssentially document cameras are high tech overhead projectors or web cams that are used for presentations or in the classroom. // How can you use it? · //I would love to use this to take a closer look at animals that we have been researching during our habitat unit. This is a camera that can only view objects up to a particular size (so you are limited to pretty much anything less than 5 lbs. or so. // I would like to take insects and small animals found in our local habitats and observe their behaviors in an contained setting so that the children can see the way they react to a particular environment. Why would you use it? · //This is a useful tool because it offers either self-guided // · //Pros// Another idea for using document cameras · //Cons // · //Include standards (NETS and 21st Century Skills) //
 * This is an idea that I have borrowed from the Cape May County Zoo but I would like to bring it to a more personal level, into the classroom.
 * //Endless options //
 * Sustainable
 * Opportunity to create a physically active classroom
 * Give the children the opportunity to observe what you are doing any not have to be breathing over your back.
 * Recordable so that it can be used year after year or put online for other to enjoy.
 * Over-use and abuse
 * //Endless options //
 * //Time consuming //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">//Must be planned very well//
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Limited to where the document camera is located. //

Tools:
 * ELMO Classroom Visual Presenter
 * AVerMedia
 * <span class="wiki_link">PaxCam - Digital Microscope Camera: A camera that hooks onto a microscope to record still and motion images for educational laboratories and student use
 * Build Your Own... Maybe not a micorscope:
 * cell phone cameras []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Creative Writing

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