If you want to be able to show student work, share any text or 3-D object, or demonstrate using manipulatives, the document camera is the device to use.
- Suggested Uses - See Chart Below
- Booking
- when booking a document camera, you must separately book a data projector to display the image
- All bookings/reservations must be tracked for two main reasons:
- easy method to find last user
- determine usage statistics which informs purchasing for the following year
- Go to our Bookings page to find details of booking document cameras at your campus
- Video Cables / Connections
- video signal passes through a VGA cable from the document camera to a data projector (all projectors come with this cables)
- Switching Data to Docment Camera
- it is possible to setup the video signal from teh computer to the document camera then from doc. cam. to the projector which allows the user to alternate between computer and document camera (ask for help from Audiovisual Dept.)
- Directions for use:
- see the directions for use for data projectors
- power on the document camera with the round red button
- place any item or text on the stage and wait for the device to auto-focus
- Features of the document camera
- wide/tele buttons - allow you to zoom (tele) the lens to show small details or go to wide angle to show an entire page/object
- top light - there are two LED overhead light sources to illuminate the stage in a darkened room
- back light - there is a light under the stage to be used to transparent
- save - two images can be stored in the device at a time
- replay - used to show the 2 saved images (one at a time)
- freeze - used to freeze the current image until freeze is pressed again (useful for making smooth transitions while projecting images)
Reading |
- Interactive way to fill out/ model purpose of graphic organizers as a class.
- Shared reading & showing students how to refer back to a text
- Notetaking & summarizing strategies for reports – pulling out important information
- Matching words/characteristics with descriptors
- Teaching/Modeling self-assessment
- Modeling specific monitoring comprehension techniques
- Making Words activity – Working with Words activities
- Sketching scenes from a book
- Cloze activities
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Writing |
- Taking a before and after picture for writing – before adding/changing lead and after for example
- Looking at ways to revise a student’s work.
- Helping with the “Share” part of the writing lesson – highlighting certain aspects of student work
- Handwriting
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Math |
- Showing problem solving examples – specifically checking their work.
- Modeling how to use math manipulatives (money, clocks, angles, etc.)
- Show how to use a calculator
- Show how to measure to the nearest centimeter, ½ centimeter, ½ inch, ¼ of an inch – using the zoom in feature
- Show how to measure angles
- Volume of 3D objects
- Modeling math games
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Social Studies |
- Interactive way to fill out graphic organizers as a class.
- Show pictures that relate to topic & have children discuss the pictures (How does it relate to the topic?) Similar to what we did with Richard in the training, but using pictures from the internet
- Graphics that relate to key questions/ideas in unit – have class discussions/small group discussions based on these graphics
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Science |
- Interactive way to fill out graphic organizers as a class.
- Show pictures that relate to topic & have children discuss the pictures (How does it relate to the topic?) Similar to what we did with Richard in the training, but using pictures from the internet
- Graphics that relate to key questions/ideas in unit – have class discussions/small group discussions based on these graphics
- Model how to use a graphic organizer
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- Venn Diagrams and other graphic organizers – as per group discussions
- Students explain student work.
- ART – Modeling drawing techniques
- Case Study for Resource meetings
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