Digital Camera Mania in the Classroom

The use of digital cameras in the classroom opens up many new doors of learning for your students. From ways to help the students have a broader view of the world, to just recognizing him or her by having a cut-out picture of his or her face on an object, digital cameras are a great use in the classroom that should not be ignored.

Top 10 Ideas of Integrating the Use of Digital Cameras into the Elementary Classroom:

1. Field Trip/Activity Documentation
2. Virtual Field Trip Slide Show
3. Science Projects of Seeing Things from a New Perspective
4. Slide Show Presentations for Parents/Students--Ex. "A Day In the Life of Your Classroom"
   
5. To Show Changes of Students from Beginning of Year to End of Year
6. Photograph students dressed up as who they want to be when they grow up, take a picture of them, then use as illustrations of careers as you talk about them. (Could do something similar for history.)
7. Have the students to right a mini-book. Then take a picture of them and place it on the front with their name below showing authorship.
8. Have the students make Mother Day cards or presents with their pictures on them.
   
9. Video/Slide Show Yearbook
10. Use to take pictures for labels within the room.

Integrating Technology Standards with Content Standards

As a teacher in the 21st Century, the integration of technology standards with content standards will not be as difficult of a task as it has been for pass teachers. As our schools become more technologically literate and equipped, the ability to incorporate technology with every day subjects will become more robotic. The key of the use of technology in one's class is not to just use the equipment and fulfill the requirements, but to thoroughly teach the students how to properly use the different types of technology. I will be able to give my students hands-on experience with technology to prepare them for the growing world around them.
My lesson planning will have to incorporate technology in one way or another for pretty much every subject. I or the students will need to be involved with technology in some way. I will need to plan not to only use technology, but also to help educate the students in furthering their capability to function in the different types of technology.