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.
2 comments:
Greg~Thanks for your list of ideas of how to integrate the use of the digital camera into your classroom. I really like the idea you had of creating a scavenger hunt to learn the way around a building/campus. This could be especially fun for students entering a new building or even to test returning students knowledge by taking some very interesting/obscure detail pictures. I also like the idea of teaching the students how to edit pictures and getting them involved on that level of the technology. Great ideas!
Greg,
You have a lot of practical ideas for the use of digital cameras for your classroom. I especially like the one of taking pictures of the students in their seating chart for a sub, especially if you have terrible students who would switch each other's names so as to confuse the poor sub. ;)
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