The document describes various uses of a document camera for different subject areas in a classroom. It provides examples of how teachers can use the document camera to model writing, display textbooks, complete graphic organizers, label diagrams, record videos, show math and science experiments up close, and more. It also provides tips on using the document camera to demonstrate, model, and have students participate together through activities visible to the entire class on a larger screen.

1. What the Doc Cam
can do for your
Classroom

2. English
• Model writing skills, editing, revising
• State test question, with poll
everywhere.
• Complete graphic organizers as a
whole class
• Display Textbooks

3. Put up Text have Students Identify the main Idea

4. They can come up and share with the Class

5. Create a list of sentences that have strategically placed mistakes related to an
instructional topic, i.e. spelling, punctuation, subject verb agreement, informal word
choice, run on sentences, or other target forms.

6. Make Corrections as a class

7. Come up as groups and make corrections

8. Music
•
Music to introduce new
music/songs/composers
•Music to learn notes

9. Learning notes
Picture of student writing on the board

10. History
• Social Studies maps
• Resource material you may only have
one of or do not want to put in the
hands of students
• Historical items
• Make a video of places students have
traveled

11. Every Kid has a timeline

12. Fill it out together

13. Map It

14. Fill the maps out together

15. Health
• Nutrition
• Label the Human Skeleton
• Label Organs of the Human Body

16. Lets Talk Nutrition

17. What’s a Serving Size

18. Skelator

19. Math
• Math manipulative’s such as rulers,
compass, algebra tiles, geometric
figures
• Model how to use a calculator
• Graph paper
• Model setting up and steps for

20. Super HUGE Graph Paper

21. Giant Calculators
Under the Doc Cam
What the students see

22. Science
• Science experiments
• Dissections
• Microscope
• Science worksheets
• Science manipulative’s
• Model chemistry problems, solving physics
formulas

25. Up Close and Personal
“But, I don’t have rocks for everyone”

26. Bring Relevance to Lessons

27. Tips for All

28. Modeling
• Demonstrate
• Model
• Students Know What
• Students Know Where

29. How Do I Use This???

30. Understand Directions Clearly

31. Notes for Everyone

32. Quiz for Everyone,
Yay, we saved some trees!!!

33. Peer to Peer

34. “Thats what my handwriting looks like”
The Doc Cam Adds 10 pounds!

35. Lets ALL SHARE

36. Compare and Contrast

37. Timers
Throw a cell phone or stop watch up there

38. Videos
How to with the Doc Cam

39. Record Straight to a Flash Drive
Push switch to the right
Push to RGB
Plug in Flashdrive

40. Hit Record to start and stop
When the lights green your ON

41. Math Video
Saves as mov. file

42. To Record straight to your
Computer
Push switch to the left Switch to RGB

43. Plug in RGB cable

44. Open up AverMedia Software

45. Select the doc cam pic from toolbar

46. This is what you will see

47. You have 3 options what you want to see when recording.
Option 1
Option 2 and 3

48. Option 1: You will record only what is in the Doc Cam pic
Click Here
*** No Annotations, will play on***

49. Hit Record and do your thing.
This will save as
a mov. File

50. Option 2: This will allow you to Record everything on the Screen
Option 3: This will allow you to record everything on the page.
You Can Annotate, will only play with AverMedia Software

51. Option 2 and 3

52. This shows up

53. Screen Record Page Record
Both option 2 and 3
save as a AVP. file
This opens a new page as soon as your done

54. Play two example videos

55. Using the Screen Visor
Select

56. Select Screen Visor

57. Analyze sentence by sentence

58. Using the Screen Visor
in Science
Instead of the whole thing at once, how about...

59. Step by Step

60. Using the Screen Visor
in Math

61. Using the Spot Light
Don’t look at all of this first
Select

62. How about one line at a time.
Spot light

63. History Math
Step by step
Part of a map

64. English Science
Line by line
Step by step

65. More Tools

66. Transparency Mode
Snap shot webpages to annotate

67. Click Here to bring in the webpage or any picture

68. Draw, Highlight, or use the Visor or Spotlight

69. Split Screen

70. Bring up two websites and compare, make annotations

71. Pictures from:
Karina Clemmons, Ed. D. Orange County Public Schools ...
www.elmousa.com/files/ShowMeGreatLessons!.pdf