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I recently polled my staff on various technology training topics. Surprisingly the most requested training was on Skype and webcams. What is the hook with Skype and how can it be used in education? I started putting together a wikipage on the ins and outs of Skype and uses. I can see how this [...]
Back in the fall I spent the morning with the 7th grade math teachers on campus. The focus of our training was how to use webcams in the math classrooms. Mainly with the idea that a webcam costs under $100 and a document camera costs well over $700. Our tech ed teacher built stands for [...]
The stands for the webcams are finished, so I thought I would post the final product. The webcam slides in the slot of the wooden arm and the wing nut tightens to hold it securely in place. The camera is then plugged into the computer. A special thanks to Jamie Redden, technology education teacher, for [...]
Recently I heard about people using webcams as document cameras. We decided to give it a shot on campus in the 7th grade math classrooms. We purchased the Logitech 9000 webcam and the Tech Ed teacher is building a stand for the camera so it can be stationary wherever the teacher wants to place it [...]