I'm home from holiday and have been teaching today - a workshop for beginners about staging exhibits and displays. One item in my lesson plan is always tricky to get over - drawing accurate plans and elevations. Though the students can understand the idea of each, when it comes to actually drawing a plan and an elevation, they find it difficult and tend to draw hybrids rather than the definitive view.
So, today I took along the docucam and all was so much easier. Site the lens directly above the small arrangement and voila, there was the plan projected, ready to trace onto the flip chart. then move to eye-level in front of the exhibit and there was the elevation. No problem!
The brief, by the way, was to arrange several items from their handbag in some standard symmetrical/assymmetrical arrangements and record them for rebuilding later in the session. All agreed that having the views from the docucam projected onto the wall of the village hall was very effective and enhanced their learning.
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That sounds like a very interesting lesson Gill. And it inspires me to get confident with the docucam to be able to use it in the summer term. I don't have te right lead, like Sara, so will bring along what I have to our meeting next week.
It was really easy, Lizzie - didn't use the laptop at all, simply plugged the docucam into the back of the projector and showed the images on the wall of the village hall.
Good idea to get the lead next week - maybe drop an email into Shire Hall so that Julie can get it out ready for you, in case you forget.
double USB lead is needed (I think) when connecting docucam with projector and lap top - it would be great to try this out when we meet shortly. looking forward to geting together. sara
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