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Hearing what helped make the previous year’s students successful from the actual students themselves (rather than from the teacher) will have a more convincing impact. Create video time capsules. Create video time capsules. Imagine if the entire school did this throughout the years and the culminating project was shared at graduation? Capture the memories. During the school year, your students spend more time in school than at home. Don’t we owe it to them to help capture the memories? Forget yearbooks. Give DVDs at the end of the year. viewing and self-reflection) in the classroom will have a consistent, underlying message: Learning is important enough to be captured, shared, and archived. Video begs for reviewing and rewinding much more than a letter grade could ever hope for. Learning captured by video suggests a continuum in which a letter grade suggests completion. Video can help show that a larger “story” is taking place than just what is reflected by a letter grade and that learning is made up of many events where success and struggle are part of the journey. Bob Sprankle is a technology integrator from Wells Elementary in Wells, Maine. Make it count. Constantly using video (a medium that allows for self- Bargain video cameras Here are some of the many inexpensive, compact digital camcorders now available: Aiptek DV5900 5MP Pocket Digital Camcorder Aiptek www.aiptek.com $98 Canon ZR850 1MP MiniDV with 35x optical zoom Canon www.usa.canon.com $185–$299 Flip Video Camcorder 60-Minutes Flip Video www.theflip.com $107.50 (basic); $140–$180 (Ultra series) Isonic DV566 5MP Multifunction Pocket Digital Camcorder Isonic www.isonicusa.com $108–$110 JVC GRD750 MiniDV Camcorder with 34x optical zoom JVC http://camcorder.jvc.com $174–$294 Oregon Scientific ATC 2K Action Cam Oregon Scientific www.oregonscientific.com $95–$120 Panasonic SDR-S10P1 Flash Memory Weatherproof Camcorder Panasonic www.panasonic.com $190–$250 RCA EZ201 Small Wonder 60-Minute Point-and-Shoot RCA www.rca.com $80–$120 Samsung SC-D372 MiniDV with 34x optical zoom Samsung www.samsung.com/us/ $158–$299 Sanyo Xacti CG6 6MP MPEG-4 Sanyo http://us.sanyo.com $180–$290 Sony DCR-HC28 MiniDV Handycam Sony www.sony.com $180–$314 Vivitar DVR550 5MP CMOS Vivitar www.vivitar8.com $93 32 | www.techlearning.com http://www.aiptek.com http://camcorder.jvc.com http://www.samsung.com/us/ http://www.oregonscientific.com http://us.sanyo.com http://www.usa.canon.com http://www.theflip.com http://www.panasonic.com http://www.sony.com http://www.vivitar8.com http://www.isonicusa.com http://www.rca.com http://www.techlearning.com

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