Digital Cameras

Having just celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday, stores are now full of merchandise for Christmas. Many  of the items you may see out are the latest of their kind. I had the opportunity to take a look at some of the newly released digital cameras at a few stores. As I was looking through the various kinds, I remembered a story a classmate of mine had told me. She explained that there were several ESL students in her classroom all of which had very low language levels. Her CT began using digital cameras in her classroom, allowing those students to take pictures of the items in the classroom, around the school, and outside of school. The pictures they took were to document the things they wished to know the English words for. They then brought the cameras back to school, where the teacher printed off their pictures along with the name of each item in the picture. I thought this would be a great classroom tool for special education students as well. As a Deaf education major, I am always searching for ways in which to make my classroom and my students learning more visual. Cameras are a wonderful way to give students access to such visual learning.