Monday, October 21, 2013

Doc Cams in Online Teaching

I periodically conduct a short workshop featuring techniques and resources for using document cameras in support of online teaching. Here are some of the main advantages I like to discuss in these workshops:



Techniques
  • Picture-in-picture synchronous teaching
  • Doc-Casting
  • Personalized assessment: voice and color-annotated feedback
  • Scanning (e.g., PDF preparation)
  • Digital stills
  • Live demonstration toolset: presentation and annotation


Strategies
  • Aiming at the Abstract: Visualization
  • Use / Re-use (make it once, use it many times)
  • Time-saving (efficiency)


Document cameras can do so much in support of online teaching—so much so that these devices should become a required part of the online instructor’s basic equipment toolkit. 

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