Document+camera

Analysis: The purpose of this in-service is to instruct teachers on the uses of new classroom technology - document cameras.

The audience for this in-service will be classroom teachers working in school districts which are preparing to add document cameras an integral part of classroom instruction.

The setting for this in-service will be a conference room with the ability to set up and run multiple document cameras.

The purpose of this in-service will be to help teachers become familiar with the features and uses of document cameras.

Goals:

Teachers will be able to easily install, set up and use document cameras

Teachers will understand the uses of document cameras beyond the functions of overhead projectors:
 * Showing writing or drawwing on paper to the class
 * Writing or drawing on paper while lecturing
 * Showing text or pictures from textbooks or other sources
 * Highlighting important passages of text while lecturing to students
 * Showing three dimensional objects to the class
 * Showing real time experiments to the class
 * The possibility of attaching a microscope to the Document Camera

Assessment of understanding

In groups, teachers will use document cameras to prepare a simple lesson and present it to the other groups in the in-service. Technology needed:

Several document cameras. One to use for demonstration model, and others for teachers to experiment with.

Design:

The in-service instructor will demonstrate how to hook up and turn on document cameras. Teachers will hook up and turn on their document cameras.

The in-service instructor will demonstrate the multiple functions of document cameras, from most simple to most complex.

The teachers will be split into groups with one document camera per group, and will experiment with the uses of document cameras.

Each group will plan a simple lesson using the document camera. They will present this lesson to the entire class.

There will be a period of questions and answers.