Document+Cameras

Document cameras, also known as **image presenters**, **visual presenters**, **digital visualizers**, **digital overheads**, and **docucams**, are real-time image capture devices for displaying an object to a large audience. A document camera is able to magnify and project the images of actual, three-dimensional objects, as well as transparencies. A document camera can also be used as a webcam for video conferencing. As a participant in this course, you have been given an IPEVO Point 2 View camera.
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> A company selling various document cameras. Explains differences between cameras, instructional videos and classroom integration ideas. > > []
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 * Sample lesson plans that utilize the document camera: []
 * [|Document camera uses in the classroom.pdf][[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://chariho.wikispaces.com/file/view/document+camera+uses+in+the+classroom.pdf"]]
 * Ditch that Overhead projector for a Document Camera: An article written by teachers Beverly K. Burks and Mahlon Tate, Fort Worth Independent School District, explaining how they have used the document camera to replace the overhead projector and create a more interactive classroom:
 * Point 2 View User Manual [[file:p2v_user_manual.pdf]]

I just learned about a new technology called "**Mixed Reality**" and SMART Tech is introducing a document camera that will project 3D images. Check out the You Tube video explaining how it works. They expect to release the Mixed Reality document camera this summer. - M. Steever