Digital Cameras

Digital cameras have many pros in classroom use. There are hundreds of ways to use them. Some of my favorite ideas are:

1. Create a Birthday Book. Add a photo to a page that the child has written about birthday plans. Print one for the book and one to send home.

2. Take a photo of an object zoomed in. Have students guess what it is.

3. Create a game for matching student photos and student names.

4. Create a video book report complete with costumes and action.

5. Create "It's My Turn" name cards with student pictures for choosing who gets the next turn.

Digital cameras are easy to use and you can edit the pictures you take. They are a fun way to use technology in the classroom and allow your students to learn how to use them. I think it would be fun to have your students find creative ideas to use the pictures they take in a group presentation for the class. We are using the pictures we took to teach a certain subject. It would be a lot of fun for kids to do the same. Digital cameras can be used to teach any subject in the classroom, even math!! There are tons of resources online with thousands of ideas to use digital cameras in the classroom and it is a great way for kids to show their creativity. Some pros of using digital cameras are that pictures are immediately available, pictures are saved in graphic format, and they are easily transferred from the camera to the computer. I never even thought of using digital cameras in a classroom until this assignment and now I have so many great ideas and lesson plans to teach and use them in my own classroom! I'm so excited to have this new resource!

VIDEO BLOG

I really like the "Top Things You Do Not Learn About Teaching in College" video. Teaching truly takes time to become good at and you don't go into it knowing everything. It takes time and practice to learn what works and what doesn't work. It takes time to learn what lesson plans are best and how students are all different and what different ways you need to teach certain students. It was a very commical video for me. The mashup was interesting. I hope I watched the right video of a whole bunch of people around the world playing chords on musical instruments to make it into a song...But from that video I learned that using digital cameras to record things for a video is an awesome idea! And putting those songs together from different parts of the world is brilliant! If I could get my students to do something like that in a classroom, it would be so much fun and such a great way to learn how to put a whole bunch of different parts of video together. We could create a video together as a class even and send it to a different part of the world showing what our day was like in an American classroom and then to receive one back from another classroom in a different part of the world would be such a learning tool for students and we'd have a blast doing it! The videos this week were lots of fun! I enjoyed them a lot.