Tic-Tech: scanning family photographs for class projects

From: Pam Rogers (progers@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 08:13:21 PDT

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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:

    > --- TIC-TECH message:
    > 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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