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All the articles were very informative detailing how the digital camera can be an asset to education, classrooms, teachers and students. Over time the digital cameras have become more affordable so that schools and teachers now have greater access to them. They are using them to enhance the learning in their classrooms. The list of possible things that can be done with a digital camera is very long and varied. The following link is a sampling of what can be done with a digital camera to help a teacher in a class room: []. There are a variety of programs on the internet that can help out with such things as editing, putting captions, and changing photos to match the needs for whatever project one is working on. Some of these programs are Picasa, Flicka, PhotoBucket and PaintNet. The options on which camera to buy will determine what you need for your classroom.







The one area of digital photography that I have learn and will incorporate into my teaching is using digital cameras for classroom environment and management. Being able to take photos of my students and then have their picture and name available for substitutes. Being able to use pictures for job charts, bulletin boards, photos of centers and jobs each of these items will make the management of the class much easier. The students will know what they are suppose to do and when. The classroom will run with less confusion and in a orderly manner.

Describe the Perfect Camera

The perfect camera for my classroom would have the ability to video and take still pictures. Since I have a problem keeping my hand steady when taking pictures it would need to have a way to keep the picture stable. I have never been the best photographer so my classroom camera would need to have auto selections for just about everything. The different situations that the camera would be used for such as in the classroom, field trips, outside on the playground and many other places. I would need to be able to understand how to run the camera, so it would need to have instructions that are easily understandable. Especially, since I have been more then a little technologically challenged when it comes to computers and digital cameras. If the camera is easy enough for me then I am sure it would be perfect for my students.

In researching digital cameras to use in my classroom I found the perfect camera. One that fits all of my requirement,s the camera is the PowerShot ELPH 100 HS. The camera is approximately $149.99. To find more information on the PowerShot go to the following link: [|PowerShot ELPH 100 HS Gray]

Students and Digital Cameras

Student are using digital cameras in a multitude of ways. They use digital cameras to document science fair experiments. They also use them to record plays by the students to represent a history project. The students use it to conduct interviews for social study or assignments that require students to interview people in different careers to help students explore a variety of options. They can also use digital cameras to take pictures for a all about me poster. Those pictures would be examples of things the student likes to do.

10 Ideas on How a Teacher Can Use a Digital Camera

1. Take pictures of the children to put on their desks to help the children as well as the teacher remember names to faces. 2. Take photos of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. To help the children to remember what each stands for. 3. Help each student with photos of their science fair projects to keep a record of it and to help if there is a need for sequencing. 4. Create overheads for all subjects in the curriculum. 5. Use the digital camera to make slide shows or presentations for a variety of subjects. 6. Create an Alphabet book from photos of items that start with the first letter starting with A. 7. Make a multilingual dictionary to help those that are ESL students. 8. Uses for a digital scrapbook that would document the school year and all the activities that happened. 9. Use to take pictures of geometric shapes and then have the students go on a scavenger hunt to try to find all the shapes 10. Take pictures on field trips so we can talk over the adventure and discuss what we have learned by reviewing the pictures.

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