20 Reasons why you should definitely get a Visualiser for your classroom

Visualisers are the latest in the world of E Learning. With so many brand new ICT products cropping up in the market facilitating education like never before, the demand for visualisers or Document Cameras as they are popularly known is definitely on the increase. Visualisers are an amazing teaching resource. They enable a teacher to really widen the teaching boundaries and enhance the whole learning experience. Visualisers not only lend a certain modern touch to your classroom they also render the teaching and learning processes much more efficacious and wholesome. There are many reasons why we require a visualiser in a classroom. Today, we shall look at some interesting ways in which we can effectively make use of the document camera as a great educational aid.

Let’s take a simple scenario. You’re a teacher and you enter the class to teach the students. Now there are a lot of subjects you could teach. It could be a language, an art subject, Math, science or social science. In each of the cases you will require a video aid to help students better understand the topic. For example, you might need to show students paintings by the Renaissance artists or geometry figures in Mathematics, scientific diagrams and images in science, or society related images maybe representing the group dynamics in the social studies etc. To do all of this you either make a chart or draw a diagram on the board or show a picture in the book itself to the fifty or so budding talents present in the classroom.

Now, if you just had a Visualiser, you could do all of this without wasting time! And here’s the best feature. A visualiser can not only show you enlarged images of any two dimensional object like a document, map, letter, newspaper clipping, page from a book etc, it can also show you zoomed projections of 3D articles!

How can a Document Camera transform your Classroom? There is so much that you can do with a Visualiser! With its multi functions and applications, it is a must buy ICT resource for your smart digital classroom.

Here are 20 things we believe can be easily done via document camera.

You can:

1. Share clippings from a newspaper, magazine article or book etc2. Showcase the work of your students and give simultaneous feedback3. Do live annotations and corrections to improvise student work and performance 4. Display big image of the an object without passing it around5. Record lessons for revisions or for absentees or whenever you need to play the lesson again6. Display any kind of image: charts, graphs, biology diagrams, posters etc7. Cut and paste pictures into PowerPoint, Word, etc.8. Capture pictures 9. Record videos

10. Model how to solve math problems in geometry 11. Show a dissection and Create a video of the dissection12. Create a video and attach it to an email13. Use it as a scanner 14. Save the work of your student to show to their Parents15. Zoom or enlarge small documents, text or images16. The recorded teaching videos can serve as tutorials/models or references for absentee

students and substitute teachers17. Use as an overhead without mess of transparency18. Digitally mark up worksheets without messing them up19. Helpful while filling forms20. Think Aloud strategy