Forty-Three Interesting Ways* to Use Your Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom

This slide format guide assembles 43 illustrated suggestions from various educators for the use of pocket video technology to connect students to learning. A sampling of the pages includes the following:

• #12 Interviews - Walk around the playground at lunchtime and interview students on a topic
  
• #18 Special Needs - Deaf Children - Students use camera to film spellings signed by teacher at school so they can take it home to learn and share with siblings/parents.
  
• #25 Book Talk - Have students make a commercial when they have finished a book.
  
• #29 Club Advertising - Children film promotional adverts for clubs that run at their school.
• #30 Peer Assessment - A class carries out peer assessment on work by students at another school, posted on a blog.
  
• #35 Make a Video Alphabet - Get a group of younger children to draw brightly coloured letters of the alphabet / phonics. They then hold them up and film each other saying them.
  
• #40 Observing Weather Conditions - Place a video camera on a window ledge and leave it recording for a period of time. Play back to watch the weather.
  
• #43 Translate - Students make foreign language (in this case, English) road descriptions. Students are given a destination and a camera. They then make a road description in the form of a VoiceThread. [VoiceThread is a media aggregator that allows people to post media artefacts - which might be a document, a slide presentation, a video, or a collection of photos - for community feedback - definition from the Educause website]