Reflection 8

WHAT?

In Professor Mohan’s class, we took a look at the new document camera that is directly connected to the SMART Board. This is different from the document cameras that most classrooms have at Northwest University because the SMART Board document camera and the SMART Board are able to work together, rather than separately, which creates a speedier route for technology.

SO WHAT?

What a tool! I loved this SMART Board document camera. You could freeze images and make them directly into a page in SMART Board Notebook. Professor Mohan was able to screen shot all of the attendance sheets as SMART Board Notebook files. Now, all she had to do each class period was to pull up the attendance and have students sign in. You may be saying, well the first document camera’s we had can do a freeze frame. This is true (although we could never figure out how to actually get the image to freeze), but the feature that it lacks is saving the freeze frame to a file.

NOW WHAT?

The opportunities seem almost endless with this new SMART Board document camera. My point here today is to learn new technology as it is introduced to the classroom. Do not just sit back and say, “Well, I already have a document camera, so I don’t need to use this one.” Instead, take advantage of the new technologies that are offered to you. The SMART Board document camera was a perfect example of the reasons as to why we, as teachers, should utilize new systems of technology. We can’t get behind the times!