MissMary 08/14/2012 at 12:33pm
I love the ELMO, best tool I have ever used!

Monty15 08/20/2012 at 08:29am
I agree with MissMary. I went to Disneyland in California two years ago and they had a animation demonstration in Adventureland Mainstreet. in the theater. An animator would walk you through simple steps of drawing one Disney character - done with an ELMO camera. on a large screen for the audience to see. As a jewelry and ceramics teacher, I can see the benefits of detailed and close up teacher modeling done this way! Other wise perhaps a Go Pro cam as it is more mobile and smaller?

ArtKat0508 08/21/2012 at 08:01pm
if you are looking for an economical option, $80 I use an i-pevo. It is not at all the same quality as ELMO (i had one at a different school). It has limitations but having something is priceless.

RuthByrne 08/24/2012 at 04:49am
From what I can tell with the Doc camera in my room, its simply a webcam mounted to an adjustable arm. I rarely use it since there is room for students to watch demonstrations in person. It may even be economical to get a decent webcam or a cheepo digital camera that will let you connect to the computer and build a frame to hold it over a staging area.

lightARTed 08/28/2012 at 11:33am
Woohoo! I lucked out and discovered a classroom teacher with a doc camera they were not using so now I have one. It is a smartboad doc camera not an elmo but seems to be working great, the kids love it that they are not crammed around the table anymore!!!!

Taurine75 09/09/2012 at 01:08pm
I purchased my own ELMO and projector and I can't see myself teaching art without it. You can see a picture of my ELMO in my classroom pics (last image): http://www.mrbodnar.com/my-classroom.html



The company has since put out a version more advanced than mine (http://www.elmousa.com/tt-12-interactive-document-camera).