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I think that using digital cameras in the classroom is a great idea that most people look over when they are talking about technology. It can be a great thing to get the students excited about school or whatever activity you are using the camera for and though the activity they will learn something . . . we hope. I am going to give you my top ten reasons why to use a digital camera.

• 1-      You can take pictures of your class just for memory sake.
  
• 2-      If you are doing a project you can use it to remember the data or to compare different stages of the project.
  
• 3-      If your camera also will do videos you can put on a play out of your reading book and put it online so the class can show their mom and dad.
  
• 4-      You can use the pictures to make a bulletin board of the students pictures
  
• 5-      Teaching the students how to edit pictures of themselves
  
• 6-      Let the student take pictures around the school of things in a certain category
  
• 7-      Take a picture of all the students individually and put it on a piece of paper and give it to another student so they can write something nice about the person they have.
  
• 8-      Make a pictorial setting chart so when you as the teacher are gone the sub will know who is who
  
• 9-      Just let the students have fun taking fun pictures
  
• 10-    Use the camera to make a scavenger hunt around the school and give the students that pictures and they have to find the place on the campus.    
  

CSO's

As I have progressed in my teacher training have learned about many different teaching styles one of them being the use of technology. There are many different ways to use technology, from overheads and computers to PowerPoint and internet websites. Last semester, I was in a class named testing and curriculum that introduced us to content standard objections, CSO for short. CSO are the state requirements for the public schools in West Virginia, there are different standards for each and subject. There are many different ways to use technology I think it is a great way to teach your students to think different ways about life. Also there are many things that the students have to learn about computers like in a computer class and also in the classroom. As a soon to be teacher I will have to be very creative in the ways that I use technology in my classroom, I will be gathering more and more ideas as I move on in my studies and I will always be looking for new ideas even once I am teaching.