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With a document camera I could lay any piece of paper, worksheet, photo album, etc. underneath the camera and it would show up on my SMARTboard for the whole class to see at the same time. I go through a lot of dry erase markers each school year. I’m constantly writing on the board! A document camera would allow me to work problems with my students on worksheets without ever copying down a problem. It would eliminate using chalk, erasers, dry-erase markers, or any other type of material other than the pencil, paper, and document camera. I could do this time and time again which would save so much on materials. Many times in my social studies classes, I show the students pictures from my own photo albums of places like Alaska, Yellowstone National Park, Mount Rushmore, and Washington D.C. Each time, I tour the classroom for each page of the photo album so that all the students have an equal opportunity to get a good look at the photos. With a document camera, I could simply place the photo album underneath the lens, and all the students could see each picture in the photo album at the same time! There are multiple benefits of a document camera in my classroom, but it would literally allow me to project anything I wanted to show my class on the SMARTboard: a leaf, a recipe, a map, a page in a book, or anything else that will fit underneath the lens. With the projectors of the past, anything projected needed to be put onto clear, plastic projection film. This is not the case with the document camera, which simplifies projecting things in the classroom so much.

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With a document camera I could lay any piece of paper, worksheet, photo album, etc. underneath the camera and it would show up on my SMARTboard for the whole class to see at the same time. I go through a lot of dry erase markers each school year. I’m constantly writing on the board! A document camera would allow me to work problems with my students on worksheets without ever copying down a problem. It would eliminate using chalk, erasers, dry-erase markers, or any other type of material other than the pencil, paper, and document camera. I could do this time and time again which would save so much on materials. Many times in my social studies classes, I show the students pictures from my own photo albums of places like Alaska, Yellowstone National Park, Mount Rushmore, and Washington D.C. Each time, I tour the classroom for each page of the photo album so that all the students have an equal opportunity to get a good look at the photos. With a document camera, I could simply place the photo album underneath the lens, and all the students could see each picture in the photo album at the same time! There are multiple benefits of a document camera in my classroom, but it would literally allow me to project anything I wanted to show my class on the SMARTboard: a leaf, a recipe, a map, a page in a book, or anything else that will fit underneath the lens. With the projectors of the past, anything projected needed to be put onto clear, plastic projection film. This is not the case with the document camera, which simplifies projecting things in the classroom so much.

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