Digitizing Images

The Science department at my school owns one digital camera. It's a few years old now, but it still serves its purpose. We take it with us on all our class trips so we can keep mementos of what we saw and what we learned. We also take pictures of major science experiments including fetal pig dissections and Balloon Car Races. We always submit a few of these pictures to the quarterly newsletter to help us highlight the events in science.

There is one teacher in our department who takes digital photos of all his students and uploads them to Markbook for any future reference. I have seen this become extremely useful when this teacher is away and the supply teacher has photos of all the students in their seating plan.

I really liked the idea of photographing a day in the life of my classroom for parent Open House night to illustrate the structure of classes, the equipment we use, etc.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech148.shtml

If we had more digital cameras available to us, we could then have the students use them for various projects. It would great to see the students use them to track experiments (especially long-term ones), or create a project that involves taking images of changing events (such as the weather)

And 52 other ideas can be found at: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/gadgets.html

More to add to the list of ideas: (Teachers sharing their ideas)
http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us/lon/lonlinks/digicam/teacher/home.html