Week 9

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Reflection:
Digital Cameras can be very helpful, useful, and beneficial in the classroom. Digital Cameras allow teachers to take pictures, edit, delete, and upload within minutes. The pictures taken can quickly be put on the computer for easy access to all students. Digital Cameras can help me teach my students in thousands of ways. I can take photos or videos and use them for step by step directions, use photos for an attendance chart, take photos or videos of art concepts- line, shape, texture, form and color, use photos to create postcards, for thank you cards or invitations, for journal entries and many many more things. I think that photos are very useful in the classroom because they teach students by actual images, photos can be used in hundreds of ways. Digital cameras are very user friendly so even the students can take photos of each other, experiments, lessons, field trips etc. These photos can then be posted on a private blog for parents to see the variety of activities and lessons that their students are participating in in the classroom. I can also take photos of the students work and post them. Digital cameras can help me to communicate with my other colleagues because I can take photos during different lessons so that they can get ideas or use similar lesson plans. If I take digital pictures for a certain lesson I can easily copy those images onto a disk and other teachers can use them as well. There are many different ways that Digital Cameras can achieve classroom objectives. One idea I think that is really fun is to have students take 4 or 5 pictures and write a story using those pictures to illustrate their book. Another idea that I think is really fun for a first grade class is to assign each child a letter of the alphabet and have them hold a couple objects starting with that letter and create an alphabet book for the classroom. There are many pros to using digital cameras but some of the drawbacks are that a lot of times there are technical problems that can be very time consuming to figure out. Another issue with using digital cameras is privacy, if the images are placed on the internet a lot of precautions should be accounted for to ensure that students get their privacy.