Talking new tools for the trade
This series will walk through various types or classes of tech hardware that you might wish to add to your process. We will attempt to look at a variety of tools and options as well as how some of these tools can be used in multiple or unexpected ways.
Getting hands-on
Document cameras are the natural successor to the former bane of many students’ existence: the overhead projector. Unlike those old projectors and their transparent films, a document camera not only allows teachers to share two dimensional pages and text, but they also allow teachers to record or project any item that fits under the camera unit. Teachers can curate artifacts, pull original sources, demonstrate procedures, stream live experiments, and so much more. Using document cameras in a live, in-person classroom, teachers can bring all students right into the action that would otherwise be too small or dangerous to see from a close distance. In the digital classroom, teachers can bring the classroom into students’ homes or devices. In both cases, teachers can create a curated record that students can view or review – an experiment, demonstration, or artifact – at any time, from any device. While it is called a document camera and may be maligned as a “camera on a stick,” this tool helps teachers bring the learning directly to students.
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