This site is dedicated to all the wonderful teacher at Beauvoir Elementary who have shared all of their creative ideas for using a digital camera with me.

Welcome , This website will cover inserting pictures from digital cameras into  software programs that are commonly used in elementary classrooms.  The programs that are used are:  all Microsoft Office programs, Word, Power Point and Publisher Outlook e-mail Program; KidPix and HyperStudio; and Netscape Composer.   After you have learned to insert the images into the program, ways to use digital pictures in subject matter throughout the curriculum will be demonstrated.  Creative uses of digital photographs will be shown as well as the use of digital photography to build classroom community.  Use of digital photography will also be covered.  Hope you enjoy it, there's lots of great ideas to see here!
 
 

How Can You Use a Digital Camera In the Classroom?

    How To Put Pictures in Programs

In the Curriculum Creative uses Decorating Bulletin Boards and Doors

Building Classroom Community

Teachers Helper On-Line About the Authors

General Information     In order to benefit fully from this site you must have access to the following:


Resources


Sony Mavica Camera

Kodak Digital Cameras
Casio Digital Cameras
Using A Digital Camera in the Classroom Ten Tips for Working With Digital Photos in Power Point Make a Classroom ABC Book Grades: K-12,
                Use this excellent project to help students create their own unique ABC Book.

About the Author     Becky Lucas is a certified teacher who teaches the computer class at Beauvoir Elementary in Biloxi, Mississippi.  She assists the teachers in her school as they learn to use technology as a tool.   She helps them to integrate their classroom curriculum into the work that students do in the computer lab.  Becky also conducts training classes for teachers in her district.  She also tries to find the latest cool stuff that her school needs, then she writes grants to try and get them.  So far she's been pretty lucky with that; that's how we got our digital cameras at school.  Becky has presented at the state educational technology conference (MECA) 2 times, once on how her computer lab collaborates with the classroom teachers ; "Connecting the Computer Lab to the Classroom" and once on the uses for KidPix; "KidPix-A REALLY Multimedia Experience."

This web site developed by Becky Lucas
last modified February 6, 2003.  E-mail comments, questions, etc. to: rebecca.lucas@biloxischools.net