Tetrad - Digital Camera

• Enhances: What does this technology do that is new?


Digital cameras allow images to be recorded and storied in digital form. With the use of the computer, images can be manipulated and stored on home computers. During the digital era the developments of the digital camera have simplified the whole process of photography (Haslego, 2006).

• Obsoletes: What does this technology replace?

Digital cameras have replaced the photographic film process. The color process began in the 1930s.

• Retrieves/rekindles: What does this technology bring to mind (or retrieve) from the past?

This technology continues to meet the need to project images onto paper to be view at a later time. Early cameras were developed in the 16th and 17th century (Haslego, 2006).

• Reverses: What might replace this technology in the future, or what might it cause to occur?

At the CIPA (Camera and Imagining Products Association) tradeshow in Japan, it has been predicted that cameras of the future will no longer have a shutter button. Picture will be taken using voice commands. Camera will also become smaller, have unlimited battery power and could possibly add “smell-graphy”. This process would allow cameras to record the smell of the scene and embed it along with the visual image (Schurman, 2010).

Trends in Educational Technology

As technology plays a great role in the classroom, teachers are able to incorporate more educational resources that every before. One of these additional resources is video streaming. Video streaming is taking video and delivering it via the internet. The can be streamed in real time or recorded and archived to be viewed at a later date.

Some schools may experience challenges using video streaming due to traffic jams because of multiple users, slow computers and broadband internet connections. Despite the challenges, video streaming allows teachers to bring topics to life for many students. Students can take virtual field trips and view science experiments. Recorded videos can be viewed to help student make connection with the text.

Discovery Education is an excellent video streaming resource. It has an extensive library of classroom resource however the cost to may have a great impact on smaller school systems. Based on the website information, to offer Discovery Education Streaming Plus to a K-8 school is would cost $2,615.

                                                               

Discovery Communications, 2010, Retrieved from http://www.discoveryeducation.com/ You can find samples video streaming under the section entitled Media in the Classroom.

Discovery Communication, 2010, Retrieved from http://discoveryeducation.com/products/streaming/index.cfm

Video Streaming-a complete guide, 2009, Retrieved from http://www.webcastingzone.com/webcasting-articles/what-is-streaming.php

Video Streaming Problems- How can we stay clear of them?, 2009, Retrieved from http://www.webcastingzone.com/webcasting-articles/video-streaming-problems.php