Tic-Tech: scanning family photographs for class projects

From: Henderson, John (jhenderson@seattleschools.org)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 17:00:07 PDT

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    Hello Tic-Tech,

    I'd love advice on how to handle the bottleneck created when...
     a librarian (me)...
     tries to help a classroom of students (fourth-graders)...
     each do their own PowerPoint slide shows (25 kids) ...
     about where their family immigrated from (17 different countries)...
     featuring family photos (priceless)...
     and the library has only 1 (one) ...
     scanner.

    For a long list of reasons, the teacher didn't want the class to do this
    project in the classroom, one kid at a time. We have enough computers in
    the library that kids could work in partners on other aspects of their
    presentations while they waited for their turn at the scanner. But scanning
    is slow, and kids could only do so much before they got impatient.

    I had a few minutes before the class showed up that I could have used to
    scan some of the photos in groups of four or five. Then kids could have
    found their photos in a file marked "fourth grade photos," or something
    appropriate, and we would have saved some time.

    But is there a better way?

    John Henderson
    Van Asselt
    jhenderson@seattleschools.org

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