There's an App for That

Something definitively new has arrived on the document camera scene. It’s the EduCam Classroom Viewer App. EduCam broadcasts live images from a Ken-A-Vision FlexCam USB document camera or microscope to a classroom set of mobile devices. This app supports 1:1 viewing, capturing, annotating, and sharing of document camera images. Students can even complete and submit assignments digitally for immediate assessment. It supports both Android-based devices or iPads.

• You can read more about the EduCam app for the iPad here and the Android OS here.
• For a technical video on exactly how the EduCam App is set up, click here. 

Twist and Shout

At a recent technology conference I ran into another document camera product that appeared newly on the scene: Luna.

The Luna Twist

Luna manufactures the Twist flexible digital microscope. The Twist is a small document camera/microscope on steroids, with some interesting classroom-centric features, such as measurement and recording software.

The gooseneck Luna I lovingly call 'Shout'

This manufacturer also produces a petite gooseneck document camera. I call this little document camera “Shout” because the vendor was shouting its praises at the tech conference.

It appears that the Luna products are only available through a few resellers. One of those resellers is Learning Services, a reliable company with which I have had years of positive purchasing and customer service experience. You can learn more about the Twist here. You can learn more about the small gooseneck Luna visualizer here. Twist and Shout.

Twist and Shout, side by side
at the conference booth

Now, I have searched the web and cannot find out much about the manufacturer of Luna. It’s a mystery. Perhaps someone can post a comment below with more follow up information for all of us. It would be nice to get more detailed spec sheets from the manufacturer to post here. Be it as it may, Luna is another interesting player on the educational document camera scene.