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?