Recipe+for+Inquiry+using+Digital+Media

Ingredients:

 * ===iBooks===
 * ===Digital Cameras & cables===
 * ===Digital Microscope===
 * ===Projector===
 * ===Students===
 * ===Ways to capture movies or stills for slideshows, CDs, DVDs, etc.===

Procedure Ideas:

 * ===Digital Microscope setup at the projector for observation & recording===
 * ===Take pictures & movies using the microscope===
 * ===Hand out writing materials as they walk in and they write what they see as student recorders===
 * ===Type on the computer a group list of what they see===
 * ===Use the list to lead to ways to put observations into newsletter, post to a blog, use in a writing exercise===
 * ===Online video tools (e.g. [|operator11] or [|ZOHO notebook]) would allow camera to be observed on student computers===
 * ===What are the ways students can take pictures on their own?===
 * ===Pollywog iSight movie===
 * [[image:http://yes.yarmouth.k12.me.us/Pages/YSD_YESNews/027C95F1-007EA7AB.1/10807_115534_1.png width="260" height="50" link="http://discord.itg.uiuc.edu/members/2007-047/"]]
 * ===Show DVD from Digital Storytelling Maine Writing Project from 2006-2007 4th graders.===

Results:

 * ===Idea is that kids come to school with things they are excited about and curious about. What can you do with that under a microscope to inspire good questions, good writing, setting up a test.===
 * ===Having a good select few pieces of equipment can open up a literacy program, a math program, etc. (Note: Use online [|mindmapping] tool to create a web to show how it can build.)===
 * ===Team building/building community===
 * ===Cameras can do that; taking pictures of eyes; taking pictures for a class book.===
 * ===Catching kids demonstrating our school core values to post around the school.===
 * ===Movies of the unexpected e.g. Readers’ Theater.===