The document outlines 50 different ways to use a document camera in teaching. These include using it to display materials, demonstrate concepts visually, showcase features of the document camera like zooming and freezing frames, as well as record lessons. Additional uses involve drawing and annotating on materials shown, splitting the screen to compare documents, and using the document camera as a sandbox for interactive lessons. Links are provided to other resources on using document cameras in the classroom.
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13. What & How?
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Tom Barrett’s Interesting Ways Series
15 Interesting Ways to use a Visualizer in the Classroom
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_357zsk34mc6
Daily writing instruction; How to’s; peer-reviews; model steps; read- alouds; score rubrics; Assigned work; Note taking; Dissections (Science) Art; turn students into teachers\n\n
Zoom: Enlarge print/font; Giant magnifying glass, Projection Microscope, timer for time management,\nDraw: annotations - free draw, text, shapes, fill, lines, \nSplit Screen: Comparisons; Before/After; Work + Rubric;\nFreeze: Any kinds of Book, relocate & walk away; same with math sheets; steps then teach from around the room; one ipad? - share it under the doc camera; Freeze and Save; \nCamera: take a picture, save for portfolios, powerpoints/presentations, turn into video camera (PE; Drama; etc) Mirror (teaching symmetry/reflection; time-lapse; capture an image a day (plants); Picture schedule - so that students know what’s up next; no more scanning - \nRecord: Demonstrations, records audio & video; “screencasts” create animations (move slightly, capture)\n\n
Zoom: Enlarge print/font; Giant magnifying glass, Projection Microscope, timer for time management,\nDraw: annotations - free draw, text, shapes, fill, lines, \nSplit Screen: Comparisons; Before/After; Work + Rubric;\nFreeze: Any kinds of Book, relocate & walk away; same with math sheets; steps then teach from around the room; one ipad? - share it under the doc camera; Freeze and Save; \nCamera: take a picture, save for portfolios, powerpoints/presentations, turn into video camera (PE; Drama; etc) Mirror (teaching symmetry/reflection; time-lapse; capture an image a day (plants); Picture schedule - so that students know what’s up next; no more scanning - \nRecord: Demonstrations, records audio & video; “screencasts” create animations (move slightly, capture)\n\n
Zoom: Enlarge print/font; Giant magnifying glass, Projection Microscope, timer for time management,\nDraw: annotations - free draw, text, shapes, fill, lines, \nSplit Screen: Comparisons; Before/After; Work + Rubric;\nFreeze: Any kinds of Book, relocate & walk away; same with math sheets; steps then teach from around the room; one ipad? - share it under the doc camera; Freeze and Save; \nCamera: take a picture, save for portfolios, powerpoints/presentations, turn into video camera (PE; Drama; etc) Mirror (teaching symmetry/reflection; time-lapse; capture an image a day (plants); Picture schedule - so that students know what’s up next; no more scanning - \nRecord: Demonstrations, records audio & video; “screencasts” create animations (move slightly, capture)\n\n
Zoom: Enlarge print/font; Giant magnifying glass, Projection Microscope, timer for time management,\nDraw: annotations - free draw, text, shapes, fill, lines, \nSplit Screen: Comparisons; Before/After; Work + Rubric;\nFreeze: Any kinds of Book, relocate & walk away; same with math sheets; steps then teach from around the room; one ipad? - share it under the doc camera; Freeze and Save; \nCamera: take a picture, save for portfolios, powerpoints/presentations, turn into video camera (PE; Drama; etc) Mirror (teaching symmetry/reflection; time-lapse; capture an image a day (plants); Picture schedule - so that students know what’s up next; no more scanning - \nRecord: Demonstrations, records audio & video; “screencasts” create animations (move slightly, capture)\n\n
Zoom: Enlarge print/font; Giant magnifying glass, Projection Microscope, timer for time management,\nDraw: annotations - free draw, text, shapes, fill, lines, \nSplit Screen: Comparisons; Before/After; Work + Rubric;\nFreeze: Any kinds of Book, relocate & walk away; same with math sheets; steps then teach from around the room; one ipad? - share it under the doc camera; Freeze and Save; \nCamera: take a picture, save for portfolios, powerpoints/presentations, turn into video camera (PE; Drama; etc) Mirror (teaching symmetry/reflection; time-lapse; capture an image a day (plants); Picture schedule - so that students know what’s up next; no more scanning - \nRecord: Demonstrations, records audio & video; “screencasts” create animations (move slightly, capture)\n\n
Zoom: Enlarge print/font; Giant magnifying glass, Projection Microscope, timer for time management,\nDraw: annotations - free draw, text, shapes, fill, lines, \nSplit Screen: Comparisons; Before/After; Work + Rubric;\nFreeze: Any kinds of Book, relocate & walk away; same with math sheets; steps then teach from around the room; one ipad? - share it under the doc camera; Freeze and Save; \nCamera: take a picture, save for portfolios, powerpoints/presentations, turn into video camera (PE; Drama; etc) Mirror (teaching symmetry/reflection; time-lapse; capture an image a day (plants); Picture schedule - so that students know what’s up next; no more scanning - \nRecord: Demonstrations, records audio & video; “screencasts” create animations (move slightly, capture)\n\n
Countdown timer - free download\n
Debrief: What is one new way you will use your doc camera between tomorrow and Friday? \nOn a Sticky Note write down a specific way that you will use the doc camera - How & When\n