Jeff Forjan6/24/10

DIGITAL TOOLS FOR THE CLASSROOM

Three digital tools that can make an immediate impact in your classroom:

Digital camera

Digital video recorder

Document cameraELMO is the most common one found in Seaford classroomsAVerMedia document cameras are on the way!

Can be used to take pictures of students in action

The images can be inserted nicely into PowerPoint presentations

Adding student pictures into a PowerPoint presentation gives them a feeling of ownership

Pictures help make presentations more interesting (See how much more interesting this slide iswith my two sons Evan and Shane?)

Can be used to capture student responses to share with others, presentations or other projects.

Embed videos in PowerPoint presentations

May need to convert files to .wmv files (come to my Media Conversion presentation tomorrow morning)

ELMONot Elmo!

LimitationsCan only be used to project animage

AVerMedia Document Camera

Many functions that our ELMO just didn’t haveRecord videos of students showing workUse built-in tools, Interwrite or SMART software to make notes or corrections without writing on student workCapture images of student work to use in PowerPoint presentationsSave student work digitally

Digital Camera, Flip and AVerMedia Document Camera GroupsQuestions

Other ideas on uses?