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This is a reply to the scanner bottleneck. At Hay, I have used our digital
camera to take pictures of student work for use in digital projects. Not quite
as good as a scanner, but much quicker. We use a Sony Mavica and a room with
good lights.
I hope this is helpful,
Greg Doud
Computer Teacher
John Hay Elementary
gdoud@johnhay.ssd.k12.wa.us
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"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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