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**Technology Investigation #2 : Digital Camera** **

What is a digital camera? ** The portable handheld digital camera is a popular piece of technology and is used to take photos. The digital camera may feel like an everyday piece of technology, but when used in education, it allows a multitude of possibilities and becomes an exciting, personal, and fairly immediate classroom tool.

There are endless ways to use a digital camera in the classroom. I could see myself using it for personal projects and presentations for my class. Some examples include: 1) Personalized name tags or desk plates 2) Recording projects and presentations for Open House 3) Create a digital class archive 4) Demonstrate vocabulary, emotions, compare/contrast, observe weather over a period of time 5) Student portfolio 6) Illustrate process for complicated projects 7) Illustrate a science experiment 8) Document growth of classroom plant or pet 9) Demonstrate a physical motion/behavior 10) Develop a student-generated, graphical website
 * How can the digital camera be used it in the classroom? **

I could also see myself using it for classroom lessons. Some examples include:

1) Illustrate steps in a procedure, to aid in writing "how to" paragraphs 2) Use a photo as a prompt for narrative or descriptive writing 3) School newspaper, class newspaper or newsletter 4) Graphics for written reports and presentations 5) Write letters to pen pals and/or reading buddies, inserting photos 6) Send photos via e-mail to electronic pen pals 7) Publicize a class play or project 8) Class books -write a class novel with live-action photos as illustrations -ABC alphabet book -We Spy books -sequencing books -all about me books

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