Monday, October 25, 2010

Document Camera – Alternative to Scanner

Document Camera is a perfect alternative to scanner for classroom, meetings and presentations. Document Camera helps teacher, trainer and presenter ease the trouble of carrying reams of paper handouts for classroom, meetings and presentations.

With the use of document camera, you can take the digitized version of document, book page, photograph or even real object to your computer or laptop. The digitized version of document can be used to project,copy, email or record images or video.

In Document camera, as there's no contact with the document being scanned so there's no chance of paper jams. Document Camera connects to a laptop or computer via USB 2.0 and comes with software that allows a user to further manipulate and manage captured images.Based on the model and make of document camera, you can scan documents ranging from A5 to A3.

So, Just put anything under the base of document camera from document to 3D objects and save it to your computer for further instructions and presentations.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Document Camera – Future Teaching Tool For Classroom

The use of ICT in the classroom has made learning and teaching easierand more interactive. Students can visualize what they learn withthese ICT tools. Document Camera is one such ICT technologies that have been playing a big role in allowing students to visualize everything in the classroom.

Document camera is a teaching tool that captures real-time image of 3Dobjects and show it large number of viewers with powerful magnification facility. Document cameras are typically connected to a video projector or television or computer via USB or interactive whiteboards. Document cameras are the best teaching tool for teachersto visually present documents, slides, fossils, algae, X-ray film,artifacts, maps, and more. Teacher can capture textbooks, projects and homework with document camera to display to all students in the class at a time.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Document Camera For Modern Courtrooms

Document Camera is a great tool for modern litigation lawyers to visually display evidence information to the judge and jury in the courtroom. The next few years virtually every courtroom will have document camera.

Document Camera is visual presentation tool for displaying document images. They all have basic document display capability along with a zoom-in function. Judge and jury prefer the use of document camera as the electronic display to show evidence. Document cameras can be used in a courtroom to display evidence to the entire courtroom through large, strategically placed monitors or screens, or to multiple smaller monitors placed throughout the courtroom or in front of each juror.Images from document camera, almost unchanged from the original: What is placed on document camera, which sees the courtroom audience. The document camera simply enables the evidence or information to be more easily viewed.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Document Camera For Visual Presentation and Learning

If you are teacher, trainer or presenter, you have to conduct meetings, conferences and seminars with a purpose of information sharing or decision making with audience. Such events often fall significantly short of their potential. Your money and valuable time is lost in organizing and conducting such events.

The reason for such failure is because there is one way interaction between presenter and audience. The presenter fails to clarify the main points of the discussion, yet he or she spends valuable time on unnecessary and irrelevant points. It seems that they are not interested in enlightening or motivating their audience for two way interaction.

Document Camera helps in making visual presentation environment for interactive learning and makes your audience awake all the time. It is a scientific fact that a Visual is more powerful than text for learning and presentation. Thus your meetings, conferences and seminars become successful for you and your audiences. Document Camera is 21st century presentation and education tool that motivates your audience due to its interactive visual feature. Document Camera provide greater interaction between you and your audience acting as catalyst for achieving even higher levels of commitment and participation, enhanced efficiency and improved productivity.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Document Camera For Greener Classroom, Training and Presentation

Document Camera could be the best solution to greenifying Classroom, Training and Presentation.

Document Camera allows you to scan documents electronically saving copies of paper that may be used in photocopying of document.So lot of green trees can be saved. Make Contribution to Green Environment by
implementing document camera in the Classroom, Training ,Seminar,Conference and Presentation

Have a Greener Classroom with Document Camera!

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Document Camera – Where to Set Up in the Classroom for Maximum Interaction

Document Camera is a wonderful presentation tool for 21st Century Teachers. Just Like any interactive device, it requires proper setup and positioning within the classroom. The most important aspect of setting up document camera is its placement within classroom. The classroom with ceiling mounted camera provides more flexibility in placement of document camera.

document camera setup
Document camera can be placed anywhere in the classroom but the best place for document camera is on the teacher’s desk providing flexibility to view projection screen, the base of document camera and the entire class. The teacher can sit comfortably and interact with students through document camera. You can request students to share their work using document camera.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Document Camera – Some Innovative Classroom Uses

There are so many innovative and interactive ways of using a document camera to transform your learning and presentation session. Below are some of ideas you can implement while using document camera:

1.) As a teacher you assign worksheet like graphic organizers, crossword puzzles, etc to individual students. Yon can turn this individual task into group task with the help of document camera. Just put a worksheet underneath, display it to whole class and ask students one by one to fill out the worksheet. Use Freeze function of document camera to stay on the current sheet and solving the student questions while you walk around classroom. Isn’t this a great use for promoting group participation?

2.) You can also integrate document camera with audience response system to create own set of interactive Power Point Questions. Just capture the images with document camera and use it for response system software.

3.) Some document cameras allow internet connectivity. This means you can deliver presentation in one classroom and students of another classroom without document camera can view your presentation. Just install the necessary software on the computers broadcast your presentation from single classroom to multiple classrooms.

4.) Document camera allows you to capture videos of your students during an activity.You can also capture still images of student work and put them on your classroom walls for both fun and informative.

5.) Many document cameras have the ability to capture videos in slow motion just like slow motion replay during a cricket match. You can show the different steps in a math problem or science experiment like chemical reactions. Other examples include teacher dissecting a frog or showing the difference between beetles and butterflies in a unique, new way.

6.) As a Math Teacher you can use document camera in Geometry Classes to show the complicated world of pyramids, cones and cylinders.

7.) As a Geological teacher you can use document camera in Geology Classes to show up-close and personal different types and textures of rocks.

8.) During Art Classes you can show your students watch and see more clearly techniques on molding clay and making perfect brush strokes.

Please share your creative and innovative ways of using a Document Camera in the classroom?