Thanksgiving Break

It was great while it lasted but now we're back on the grind for a few weeks before we get to go on the big break! I was actually in Warrensburg over the whole break because we had a game Friday and Saturday so we had practice on thanksgiving morning. It kind of ruins the "break" part of thanksgiving, but I DID take the whole week off from doing anything associated with educational technology, not gonna lie! Well, I guess that's not even entirely true, because I did have a good conversation with my mom, who is a gifted education instructor at an elementary and middle school, during break about using digital cameras in the classroom. Being a gifted instructor, she deals with many students who are very technology savvy, some even knowing more than her. Since they express such an interest in new technologies, my mom says she tries to nurture that fascination by giving her students as much opportunity to use technology as possible. My mom says she has really started using digital cameras in her classroom quite a bit and for different things. This was really the first time I had talked to an educator who had started using digital cameras in their classroom and then I turn around and one of the other groups in my online class used digital cameras in education as their topic for their presentation. I guess this means that digital cameras are becoming very prevelant in classrooms everywhere. I think this is a really good thing, there just seems to be so many possiblities for their use in education. In a history class, I think I would love to try to do some kind of project where the students work in groups and somehow recreate an important event in history and take pictures/video of their recreation to share with the class. I would love to hear from a veteran teacher who had tried something like this, if there are any. I'm sure there has been something like this done before and I would love to hear/learn about it.