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Sometimes a digital camera can take a quality picture of a photograph - then you
can just download directly from the camera.
Pam
Arbor Heights
progers@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us
"Henderson, John" wrote:
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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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