5 Ways to Use a Digital Camera

From reading the article titled, "100 Ways to Use a Digital Camera" i chose five uses i can use in my classroom to enhance my students learning.
1- I can use a Digital Camera to take photos or videos of classroom pets for a unit, "what pets do you have at home?" when my students bring a pet to class and share experiences or things about their pet. Then i can and make it into an album and burn it onto a CD for my Students, Post it on UEN for my students and parents to view, or make into an interactive power point using the pictures taken in my classroom.

2-I can take photos or videos of bulletin boards or classroom ideas from another teacher to make my classroom more creative, interactive and fun for me and my students.

3-I can take photos of my student for an attendance chart to know my students more personally. I could even print out the pictures to put on the wall by my classroom door and have another chart for each day of the week and have a star with Velcro for my students to stick on to take attendance. That way i don't have to waste learning time by taking attendance. Although i probably will take attendance the first couple of weeks in class to know there names and then integrate this new system into my classroom.

4&5-I can use my digital camera to take pictures for class awards: Act of Kindness, Caught being Good, Great Reader etc. I could give three students a candy and an award every week, post it on a bulletin board in my classroom with their picture and their award for the students to look at. I can then post the pictures of those students on UEN for the parents to view at home. Then i can e-mail the parents of these students the UEN Link and tell them their student won an award that week in class. By doing this i can keep my parents involved in their son or daughters learning in my classroom.

I have learning that Digital Camera's can be a valuable tool in Elementary Education. Even for my chosen grade of Kindergarten i can find ways, as i have listed, to incorporate Digital Camera's into my classroom that will enhance my students learning in the classroom and be enjoyable for both me and my students.