Document cameras provide sustainable technology solutions for education that will remain useful for many years. They are broadly applicable to most classrooms, easy for teachers and students to use, and easy to integrate into lessons. Document cameras reduce the need for paper copies and textbooks while allowing visual content like documents, 3D objects, and experiments to be displayed on a large screen. This benefits both teachers, by making content easier to share, and students, by helping them to better understand and visualize lessons.

1. THE BENEFITS OF
DOCUMENT CAMERAS IN
EDUCATION
BY: NICOLE LONG
Frostburg State University
Nicole 2
Spring 2012

2. SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY
 “Sustainable solutions will stand the test of
time. In five to seven years (or more), they
will still be doing what they were meant to
do at the time of their original
implementation. This applies to both
instructional practices and technological
solutions.”

4. WHAT MAKES A
DOCUMENT CAMERA
SUSTAINABLE?
 Broad In Scope
 Applicable To Most Classrooms
 Easy To Use
 Easy To Integrate
 Minimal Training And Support
 Stands The Test Of Time

5. DOCUMENT CAMERAS:
BENEFITS TO TEACHERS
 Reduces or rids the need for multiple paper
copies, illustrations, or even textbooks.
 The ability to connect to a multimedia
projector, monitor or TV allows user to
display their work in large screen format.
 Can display transparencies, documents, 3-
D objects, microscopic images, moving
objects, x-rays, slides, and more.
 Save images for later use, classroom
websites for parents, PowerPoints, etc.

6. DOCUMENT CAMERAS:
BENEFITS TO STUDENTS
 Helps better understand and visualize
content.
 Enables them to be interactive and improve
presentation skills.
 Students in early childhood/elementary
school education can use and interact with
the document camera for Show-And-Tell,
science experiments, self-made “big books”,
math manipulatives, etc.

7. RESOURCES

Educational Technology Network. (2009). 50 Plus Ideas for
Using Document Cameras in the Classroom. Document
Cameras In The Classroom. Retrieved April 19, 2012, from
http://www.edtechnetwork.com/document_cameras.html
 Microsoft Corporation. (2012). Images. Clip-Art, Photos,
Sounds, & Animations. Retrieved April 19, 2012 from
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/