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Using digital cameras in the classroom


 * 100 Ways to Use Digital Cameras**
 * 1) Take photos or videos of field trips.
 * 2) Take photos or videos illustrating vocabulary words.
 * 3) Take photos or videos of plant growth
 * 4) Take photos or videos of community
 * 5) Use photos for seating charts.
 * 6) Take photos to illustrate stories or poems
 * 7) Take photos or videos for illustrating emotions
 * 8) Take photos or videos of classroom pet
 * 9) Take photos to prompt creative writing
 * 10) Take photos of learning centers for a choice chart
 * 11) Take photos or videos of bulletin boards or classroom ideas from other teachers
 * 12) Tape a student's photo on their desk nametag so that other students and substitutes learn names.
 * 13) Use photos for attendance chart
 * 14) Use photos for graphing
 * 15) Use photos for story about the child
 * 16) Use photos of family to create a family book
 * 17) Use photos or videos for step by step directions.
 * 18) Use photos for sequencing
 * 19) Use photos or videos for an ABC book
 * 20) Use photos to create a book about the school and workers
 * 21) Create a staff directory
 * 22) Use photos or videos for a school or classroom handbook
 * 23) Use photos for passports during a travel unit
 * 24) Take photos or videos in Physical Education to record events and skills
 * 25) Take photos or videos for assessment
 * 26) Take photos for a book about colors
 * 27) Take photos for a book or chart about numbers
 * 28) Take photos for a book about shapes
 * 29) Take photos or videos of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
 * 30) Take photos for a rhyming book
 * 31) Use photos in thank you cards or invitations
 * 32) Take photos of events and make a calendar of memories
 * 33) Using photos create a body part book
 * 34) Use photos to create a community workers or school workers book
 * 35) Use photos or videos for concept illustration for curriculum areas
 * 36) Display student work on your website by taking a digital photo of it
 * 37) Send a camera home with a student to take photos of family traditions or scan photos that students bring for a Traditions Book
 * 38) Use photos or videos to create an Open House slide show or display.
 * 39) Use photos in letters to e-Pals
 * 40) Create a digital yearbook or memory book
 * 41) Use photos or videos as a reminder to a teacher or substitute of how to plug in cables to the TV, VCR or computer.
 * 42) Take photos or videos to explain a hobby or collection
 * 43) Use photos as graphics in student work
 * 44) Take photos or videos of art concepts - line, shape, texture, form and color
 * 45) Take a photos or videos of something in the classroom that is a problem area. Have the students brainstorm how to change the area.
 * 46) Take photos or videos of the weather and seasons
 * 47) Use photos for the classroom helper chart
 * 48) Laminate photos of students for voting, selecting partners, choosing centers, graphing
 * 49) Take photos of classroom events for student journaling. Write about the photo of costume day, hat day, book character day, etc.
 * 50) Create a Birthday Book. Add a photo to a page that the child has written about birthday plans. Print one for the book and one to send home.
 * 51) Take a photos or videos of the students on their birthday
 * 52) Use photos to create classroom awards. Act of Kindness, Caught being good, Great reader
 * 53) Send an email with a photo attachment of the student caught being good
 * 54) Use photos to create postcards
 * 55) Use photos to create faces for puppets
 * 56) Scan photos that students bring of their pets for creating a book aboutcaring for pets
 * 57) Take photos or videos for a classroom inventory
 * 58) Document vandalism with photos or videos
 * 59) Email classroom events to the local newspaper or school board
 * 60) Use classroom photos as computer screensavers
 * 61) Create a Welcome to Our Classroom book
 * 62) Take photos of the various school lunches for a "What's for Lunch?" chart
 * 63) Scan photos students bring of extended family members to create a family tree.
 * 64) Take photos or videos for animal reports
 * 65) Take photos or videos of parts of a plant
 * 66) Take photos or videos of types of clouds
 * 67) Make a Five Senses book. Students take photos illustrating each sense
 * 68) Take photos of environmental print for an emergent readers' book - stop sign, Target sign, exit sign
 * 69) Take a photo of an object zoomed in. Have students guess what it is.
 * 70) Take photos or videos of assignments and post them to your website for parent communication
 * 71) Create photo vocabulary cards for ESL students
 * 72) Photograph books that you read to add to a list or chart
 * 73) Photograph class schedule for special needs students or substitute
 * 74) Photograph or videotape procedures for parent volunteer training
 * 75) Print two copies of photos to make a matching or concentration game.
 * 76) Show safety rules through photos or videos
 * 77) Create photograph bookmarks
 * 78) Create"It's My Turn" name cards with student pictures for choosing who gets the next turn.
 * 79) Post the Character Education Word of the Week with photos of students who fit that description. For example: Punctual, Responsible, etc.
 * 80) Create videos of students acting our Character Education concepts.
 * 81) Create a video of directions for a project
 * 82) Create brochures using photos
 * 83) Use photos or videos to "argue a point"
 * 84) Video a student as an assessment tool
 * 85) Take photos of rhyming words
 * 86) Create a chart of words that begin with the same sound using photos
 * 87) Create videos of poetry, tongue twisters or other phonemic awareness activities to send home with children for extra practice.
 * 88) Create a video book report complete with costumes and action
 * 89) Use video to record student's demonstrations for assessment
 * 90) Create video thank you messages
 * 91) Capture interviews with video
 * 92) Have students record their "sales pitch" for advertising on video
 * 93) Photograph unit resources and place in thematic unit folder
 * 94) Create a game for matching student photos and student names
 * 95) Photograph samples for graduation standards. What is a "4"? What is a "3"?
 * 96) Create a photo memory book for a student who is moving away.
 * 97) Use photographs or video for conflict resolution role playing.
 * 98) Create a postcard with the teacher's picture to send to students in the summer.
 * 99) Use photographs for a visual schedule.
 * 100) Use digital photographs for a student teacher bulletin board.

Where to store your photos 1. On your hardrive under My Pictures 2. Folder on your desktop 3. Picasa [|Google-Picasa]