Ideas with your Document Camera

• Demonstrate math manipulatives
• Show visuals for science experiments
• Modeling of the physical process of writing - hand movements
• Art - Modeling
• Whole class participate in practice state test
• Isolate new vocabulary
• Show and Tell
• Highlighted good vs. bad grammar in writing
• Going over tests
• Glyphs
• Graphing, charts, tables
• Showing science experiment results
• Creative writing - add a line
• Go over practice tests/problems highlighting one item at a time
• As an overhead projector
• Step-by-step math problem solving
• Displaying student work 
• Vocabulary & Decoding/Comprehension with box feature
• Storyboarding
• Displaying class agenda/schedule
• Read-aloud
• Modeling note-taking
• Mapping and group editing
• Showing typing on the keyboard
• Fluencing
• Coins and manipulatives
• Reflections and tessellations
• Art - show steps (teacher can work on next step while students work)
• Magnifying insects
• Demonstration with doc camera doing project, no more big semicircle watching the teacher
• Visor for predicting outcomes while looking at passages of text or picture books
• Sequence of pictures, time lapse, to demonstrate progression
• Adding visuals to note outlines
• Paperless handouts
• Showing hands-on tasks
• Compare and Contrast
• Step by step instructions
• Recording speeches   
• Group editing
• Displaying fragile items or print photographs
• Record student speeches or presentations
• Choral reading
• Science slides
• Cloze activities
• Math regrouping activities with manipulatives
• Labeling activities - project on a white board and label images
• Prediction activities
• Power writing activities - adding to category
• Display maps, charts, graphs, images from textbooks
• Sharing a 3D process
• Visualization of verbage
• Instant feedback on student work
• Before/after
• Dissecting flowers
• Using visor for critical reading and following directions
• Clay-mation slide shows
• Using box to single out paragraphs or individual words
• Handwriting technique
• Descriptive writing activities using image as writing prompt  
• Box vocabulary words in contexts
• Picture books with read alouds
• Maps, directions, examples
• Visual keywords for reading, keypoints, outlining
• Side by side, student work and live action editing
• United Streaming, zooming in on the video itself
• Math manipulatives
• Rubric next to writing and scoring the example
• Read alouds
• Sharing student solved problems and probing "whys" from student centered approach
• Randomly selected homework being displayed
• How to use calculators, rulers, and other tools
• Student taught lessons
• Creating letters
• Math Games demonstrations
• Write the correct name under the camera
• Side by side comparison showing improvement in student’s work 
• Demonstrating calculators
• The water cycle (changing ice to liquid with heat)