I teach beginners in second and third grade and have used the camera for several different things. For example I had a couple of children’s books in English. I put the book under the document camera and the whole class could see the pictures and the text when I read it.
You can also put pages from the workbook or worksheets under the camera so the whole class can see the task. It makes it easier for the learners to ask questions about the task and for the teacher to create a discussion around the subject when everybody sees the same thing.
When the students have completed a task, for example drawing a picture and writing an easy text about it, they can show it under the camera. Most of my learners have enjoyed showing their texts or other works for the rest of the class. This is a good way of learning from each other.
With this camera you can also take pictures and record movies.
Taking a picture can be a good thing to do if you want to save something interesting for future lessons. It could be an instruction or a page in a book that you and the class find useful or a project that the class has done together, for example a text.
Taking a picture can be a good thing to do if you want to save something interesting for future lessons. It could be an instruction or a page in a book that you and the class find useful or a project that the class has done together, for example a text.
Recording things are often a success among the children. We have recorded English songs that we learned together and they really like listening to them over and over again.
You could also record rhymes, both those that the pupils have written themselves or those that they have learned from a book or an English webpage.
We also use the document camera to record scenes from short plays that the students have created. By doing this the students can watch themselves act and hear themselves speak English. It´s not always that everybody feels comfortable to look at themselves on the screen. But if you have the opportunity, you can make it a habit.
You could also record rhymes, both those that the pupils have written themselves or those that they have learned from a book or an English webpage.
We also use the document camera to record scenes from short plays that the students have created. By doing this the students can watch themselves act and hear themselves speak English. It´s not always that everybody feels comfortable to look at themselves on the screen. But if you have the opportunity, you can make it a habit.
You can also upload images and movies to blogs and intranet where the parents can view the students work.
I really like the document camera and are using it a lot. It´s so easy to just put pictures or tasks under the camera and get everybody involved in the discussion.
I really like the document camera and are using it a lot. It´s so easy to just put pictures or tasks under the camera and get everybody involved in the discussion.
Hi Maria!
ReplyDeleteIt was really interesting reading about the document camera and how you use it in class. At the school in which I have had internships they had one document camera on test and were about to decide whether or not to invest in more cameras. The teacher there who tested it really appreciated it and had similar arguments for it like you. I found this tool interesting for schools to use because it is simple and easy to learn and is useful in plenty ways. The recording and filming with the camera was new to me and that is also a function that seems useful in schools. I also think it is good that the camera is connected to the computer because it widens its usefulness. The connection to internet gives a lot of opportunities in how to work with the camera in several pedagogical ways.
I hope more schools will invest in document cameras and I hope I will have access to one when I start to work as a teacher.
/Lina