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Hi Cathy,
Lucky you...I would love to get my hands on a scanner!
Anyways, here goes
1. Scan cartoons in the newspaper. Blank out the "balloons" and have the kids write their own captions/stories.
2. Scan old photos of the kids....make a timeline with their pictures, relating them to important events in history.
3. Scan photos of family members....make a family tree using photos to help kids understand relationships to family members.
4. Scan pictures of famous US sites (White house, Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore). Have kids place them appropriate on a map of the USA....or do it for the world...depending on the level of the kids.
Thanks it for now....it's 11:37pm and I've got to get to bed.
'Nite all!
Kathy Pongor
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I use my FAX machine too as a scanner. I FAX to my computer which has Winfax. It's just like sending faxes between regular fax machines. If black and white is OK, the results are fine. It only works with sheet of paper (no books). My Brother 620 is a little better than most scanners I have seen. The trick is feeding the picture through the FAX so that it doesn't jam.
Charles Smallwood
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Home of "Honey" the Signing Bear.
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Do you have a computer with 256 colors?
Asymentrix compel, and Asymetrix Toolbook are 2 prgms that accept photos and other graphics from scanners and then you can create lessons involving the graphics you have scanned in...
One idea is having the children bring in a postcard from somewhere they traveled this summer, scan it in and then have the students create a presentation via the computer about that place...they would have to tell 5 things about their place....population, crops, longitude/latitude, etc.....
Then, the students present this computer multimedia project to their classmates......after which, they can copy it onto disk and send to a "penpal" in another school which has deaf kids....
huh?
That's cool stuff.
I also use Paint Shop Pro to manipulate scanned graphics, and have Deskscan applications, Aldus ...to manipulate the scans....
I create at least one presentation for the kids a wk using scanned pix, and the students all know how to create their own as well. ....do so at least twice a semester.
Gretchen Kingan
Fairfax County Public schools
Fairfax, VA
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Here are a few ways that we used our scanner last year:
1. After a field trip to see manatees in some of Florida U's springs, we scanned pictures for a MultiMedia project in HyperStudio.
2. Some of my students brought in baby pictures and family pictures. We scanned these pictures to use in our autobiographies that we created in HyperStudio.
3. While studying Native Americans, we found books and articles in the library. We scanned some pictures from these resources to create a research project about Native Americans. We also used HyperStudio for this project. (When you use books, magazines, etc., you need to remember copyright restrictions.)
Next week, I plan to scan some drawings to create stationary documents that my students can RpaintS in a paint program.
I hope that these ideas will help you as you begin to use your scanner.
Good luck.
Kay
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Kay Ezzell, Teacher
FL School for the Deaf
207 N. San Marco Ave.
St. Augustine, FL 32086
904/823-4330
ezzellk@mail.firn.edu
ezzellk@aug.com
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