Tech Question, Doug or Jordan, can you help?

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  • July 7, 2014 at 3:30 am
    missceegee
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    We will be using the Visits to the Middle East book in our CM co-op for the coming year. I’m debating how best to handle the Material World and Hungry Planet books.

    My options for our classes that have 9-16 students each:

    1. multiple copies of each book (pricey and I don’t want 3-4 copies of each)

    2. buying poster sets (don’t include all countries or even all photos of a country)

    3. making 3-4 photo copies of each set of photos

    4. some kind of projection system. I have a projector that will hook to an iPad or a Mac easily, but that doesn’t help me to share those images. 

    5. Scanning and using multiple families iPads to display the pics.

     

    I’m just wondering if you might have a suggestion or a tech suggestion that isn’t too pricey.

       

        Thanks,

        Christie

        July 7, 2014 at 9:18 pm
        missceegee
        Participant

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        July 7, 2014 at 9:54 pm
        Janell
        Participant

        I just downloaded an app called scanner pro that makes my ipad camera a scanner. I scanned (took a photo with the app) an art calendar with 13 prints in less than 2 minutes and made the art into a beautiful pdf document. Maybe you could scan the photos on your ipad and hook it to a larger monitor.

        But I would probably share the one book by displaying it in my acrylic cookbook stand.

        July 7, 2014 at 11:07 pm
        missceegee
        Participant

        Thanks, Janell. Perhaps I can scan and print enough copies for each 2-3 kids to share. We have one large tv but it would have to be wheeled room to room and the projector can be persnickety to set up.

        July 7, 2014 at 11:37 pm
        Doug Smith
        Keymaster

        They have PowerPoint sets available but I don’t know how many of the countries and photos they contain.

        Making multiple copies of the photos wouldn’t work since that would violate their copyright. Scanning to multipble electronic devices would have the same issue.

        You could possibly take photos of your book and project that from your iPad or Mac. It’s a high tech version of those old machines we had in school where you could put a book on the platform and it would project it.

         

        July 7, 2014 at 11:55 pm
        missceegee
        Participant

        Their powerpoint sets and the poster sets do not contain all of the countries and are quite pricey. They only have 12 countries each. If it had all the countries, I’d consider buying it for future use.

        I wasn’t even thinking about the copyright aspect, just possible solutions. Ugh. Multiple books would be pricey and not a good use of shelf space and the books are too large/cumbersome to use well in a large group. I can envision multiple page closures as the books are passed with 9-16 kids per class.

        I have a small projector that hooks to the ipad, but it takes about 5-7 minutes to set up each time and my teacher will be going class to class so that’s a bit cumbersome to set up 4 different times, but it may be my best option. However, just scanning the photos to my ipad would likely violate the copyright, too.

        Hmm, this is turning out to be the most difficult part of putting our co-op together for the coming year.

        July 8, 2014 at 12:51 am
        Janell
        Participant

        I was thinking about copyright laws too, and that is why I suggested the cookbook stand. It holds large books upright and adds a protective cover to the pages.

        I don’t think that sharing the book will be a problem if reading a picture book to a group isn’t. I once had my friends eight children over with my eight children on the same day we brought Material World home from the library. We had the book opened on the rug as I paged through it with all sixteen of them hanging over me to see the families photographed in front of their homes with all of their possessions. Everyone got a chance to look at each page before I changed to the next.

        All that to say: maybe the key is to have chairs grouped together in a semi-circle around and upclose to the reader…like how a librarian or kindergarten teacher would read to her little group.

        July 8, 2014 at 1:29 am
        missceegee
        Participant

        Janell, you are correct, it is certainly doable, but not easily with all the kids around tables the way our classrooms are set up. We may be able to move the furniture a bit to move to the floor when we use these books. It’s worth considering. However, I’d still like at least 3 copies, I think, to do it with books.

        These particular books are simply difficult to hold up and read for a group due to size and floppiness in the case of the paperback Hungry Planet. Maybe I could cut the binding and spiral bind it to help. The cookbook stand is a good idea though we’d need to remove it to flip pages during the lessons. 

        This is helping me to noodle through it. Thank you!

        July 8, 2014 at 3:16 am
        Janell
        Participant

        Hey, Christie, how about a music stand to hold the book for viewing? Maybe you could borrow one from a church, school, or friend.

        I wish I could sit in your lessons. I really loved hearing your tidbits of wisdom along with Sonya in the new CM DVDs.

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