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We've looked at several ways to repurpose old technology, but one gadget that doesn't get much of a second life is the digital camera. What are some ways you'd repurpose an old digital camera to keep it out of the garbage?

"The Best Sources For Advice On Using Flip Video Cameras" Thirty-Nine Interesting Ways* to use your Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom is a great online presentation from Tom Barrett. 7 Things You Should Know About Flip Camcorders is a good overview on using them in education. Classroom 2.0 has a good discussion on its Forum about using Flips. I believe you can access it without being a member but, if not, it's free and easy to join.

Gives resources for How to use flipcams for newbie and how to use with students in teaching.

Advice for those doing quick video interviews and webcam projects.  No-one ever warned me that I would be doing video interviews when I first became a teacher. No-one came up to me and offered me media presentation training like they do for politicians.

Indeed, the iPad even has some built-in video editing capabilities: The built-in Camera app lets you trim the start and endpoints of your cinematic creation by dragging the edges of a single timeline view at the top. But to really edit video in earnest-to add transitions and titles and join and split clips-you'll need one of the apps here.

TurboScan turns your iPhone into a multipage scanner for documents, receipts, notes, whiteboards, and other text. With TurboScan, you can quickly scan your documents and store or email them as multipage PDF or JPEG files. Scan to PDF Not recommended to use with iPod Touch 4 or iPad 2 camera (due to its low resolution).
✚ Works great with the iPod Touch 5 and is compatible with the iPad 3 or newer.

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Makes one part of the picture in focus, the rest out. Pretty special purpose. Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs. Now you can easily transform your existing digital camera photos into tilt-shift style miniatures using tiltshiftmaker.com. Our online photo editing tool is fun and requires no registration or signup

follow the steps below to upload to YouTube directly from your webcam or camera

One of the most interesting features of the iPad 2 (cameras and thinner design aside) is the possibility to activate video mirroring: thanks to Apple's Digital AV Adapter or VGA Adapter, any app on your iPad 2 can be mirrored on the television's bigger screen with just an additional cable and no setup required. It works out of the box - meaning all your apps, presentations and websites can be sent off to a monitor that supports HDMI or VGA. This has been touted as one great functionality of the iPad 2 especially among teachers and people who always wished to mirror the iPad's display to an external monitor during business meetings.

Designed ForTeachers of K-1 to grad school of intro to photo/video skills.Individuals who want to take better photos and videos.You Will Need30 minutes or less.Any point and shoot digital camera from the last 3-5 years.Speakers/headphones.

"Just this week I was getting the lowdown on Smart Lenses, something a lot of people were buzzing about at CES earlier this year. And now…voila. They're here, courtesy of our friends at Photojojo. And yes I am getting one. Because, wow."