46 Ideas for Digital Cameras in the Classroom
Posted by Stephen on 1/19/10 • Categorized as Resources
Creating email attachments (e.g. sharing photos, global collaborative projects, epals)- Creating images for websites
- Encouragement activities (awards, certificates, student of the week, etc.)
- Taking photos or recording information on excursions or field trips
- Enhancing slideshows or presentations using PowerPoint or Keynote
- Recording images that capture different emotions, beauty, pleasure, etc. to support creative writing or in teaching drama
- Supporting course material e.g. lesson worksheets, OHP slides, test items, food preparation notes, science reports, etc
- Providing relevant lesson material to hearing impaired students
- Assisting students in special education
- Providing close up, macro or micro views of objects, places, plants or animals
- Encouraging effort through immediate recording and recognition of achievement
- Recording student progress (including evidence for process outcomes which are otherwise difficult to record)
- Analysing physical education activities or manipulative skills
- Recording sequences of events in experiments (e.g. life cycles, motion, colour change, dissections)
- Recording weather, types of clouds, ocean conditions, street traffic, local litter.
- Recording creations for quality control purposes (e.g. a robotics competition, egg race etc.)
- Photographing products for sale (for school fundraiser or auction, Achievers International, etc.)
- Taking photos of natural or built environments (e.g. rivers, mountains, buildings)
- Preparing photo sheets to introduce staff or students to each other
- Photographing bulky work samples or other evidence in outcomes based education e.g. art sculptures
- Helping document an interview or biography
- Providing photos of all the people and events for publishing in school yearbooks
- Recording property (e.g. for insurance purposes)
- Producing time lapse movies (e.g. flowers opening, clouds forming, building under construction, etc)
- Record images of assembly of 3-D objects (e.g. for later reassembling, instructions to others)
- Learning about photographic concepts (e.g. lighting, composition, depth of field, motion effects)
- Learning about the technology of digital photography
- Providing images to print professional looking CD labels
- Creating identity badges or admission cards for special events
- Creating immediate public relations brochures, flyers
- Fashion or modelling activities
- Fun class activities (e.g. guess the teacher from their shoes)
- Recording key stages for job progress records
- Generating images for use as computer desktop, background or wallpaper
- Documenting computer networks, sports equipment, etc.
- Archiving student photos over the years
- Presenting images on parents nights of students at work & play
- Recording a (simulated) crime or road traffic accident scene
- Recording different design options (e.g. optimum classroom layout)
- Compiling folios for dancing, drama, models, artists, etc.
- Compiling a digital portfolio of student achievement
- Recording artwork, artistic creations and manipulations e.g. flower arrangements, origami.
- Preparing folios to send to prospective employers
- Providing photos to make custom calendars or greeting cards
- Opportunities for students to develop a photography career (e.g. photojournalism, still life, fashion)
- Before and after images (personal makeover, Christmas decorations, etc)
I use digital cameras for video analysis in the physics lab.
We would be interested to hear more about this! We are trying to find interesting ways to integrate Vernier handhelds, LEGO robotics and digital photography into STEM curriculum and programs, then model them for educators to use in their classrooms.
Video point software allows you to do analysis on videos taken in the classroom. By placing points on each frame of video, graphs of the motion of that point can be made. other analysis can alos be done. It is very good and the students enjoy seeing their own actions also obey physical laws.