C.R Kennedy Pty Ltd has been proud Australian distributors of Elmo products since 1941. With this very long relationship and history with ELMO Japan, we have sold a vast variety of products over the years such as 8mm Movie Cameras and Projectors, 16mm projectors and overhead projectors. In recent years ELMO’s main focus in the education market has been the big driving force for ELMO here in Australia.

ELMO has built a strong brand image of Safety and Trust with excellence in products for over 80 years.

With a strong focus on the future, ELMO realize that it is highly important to strive to enhance both the value and competitive positioning of our products. Every aspect of our corporation is committed to our new focus. Our entire staff has embraced our focus on the future, and is dedicated to its success. C.R Kennedy also strives to uphold ELMO’s values as the distributor by offering competitive local pricing, product support, extensive product warranty and local representation in each State of Australia & New Zealand. We also offer a free trial period on selected models for schools who wish to try an ELMO before purchase.

We stand behind our products' quality. In fact, ELMO is the only visualiser /document camera manufacturer that has its own lens factory, which indeed is significant since image quality of visualiser/document cameras is very much dependant on lens' quality. With ELMO’s high quality standards we have seen our products not only used in primary and secondary education but also widely used in large tertiary Institution’s throughout Australia, Library’s and also law courts for displaying evidence. The number of possible usages for an Elmo Document camera is limitless.

So, why use an ELMO document camera? Below is a few hints and tips on how using an Elmo Document camera can change your whole teacher experience!

Different uses for an Elmo Document Camera

Replace the overhead projector- ditch the messy overhead markers and say goodbye to costly transparencies!

Worksheets, Forms, Text Book Rather than wasting precious class time running around making sure all the students know where you are in the book, on the worksheet, etc. you can simply point if you use a document camera. Having the students fill in forms is now a snap!

Shows students how to do assigned work. Things are more easily explained when they can see the problems worked out in front of them.

Demonstrating 3 dimensional items to a whole class means less time is spent passing an item around to view.

Enlarging text for students with vision impairments.

Showing and scoring students work using the Elmo image mate software and the CRA-1 Wireless tablet.

You can freeze an image from a textbook (a map or a math problem, etc.) and can take the book or materials with you as you walk around the room. This eliminates the need for huge pull down maps!

Capture math instructions one day and revisit it the next for review and also allow students who were absent to catch up on missed work

Science Demos: When the teacher does a science experiment, point the document camera at the materials for all to see. For example, let's say your experiment measures liquid in a measuring cup. Tilt the camera so that it points at the side of the cup. Now all of your students can easily read the measurement and more clearly understand how to determine an accurate measurement. Now you can even easily lead an entire class through a dissection with ease!

A document camera is great to use in a science lab because you can put the lens of the camera up to a microscope and display what you are viewing through the microscope to the whole class at once.

This is really nice if you have a limited budget that does not allow you to purchase a microscope for every child to use. Even without a microscope, the ZOOM feature on the Elmo L-12iD does a great job with magnification (12x optical, 8x Digital = 96x total zoom).

Create Whiteboard Lines: Project a blank piece of lined paper onto your white board. Now you and your students can write directly on the whiteboard and keep the writing straight and neat.

Math tools can be placed under the camera for all to see clearly. Consider how easily you can teach using a ruler and protractor as well as base 10 blocks, clock, etc.

Allows up-close and detailed observations of objects, mechanics of movement, etc. by the entire class.

• Increase effectiveness in communicating to a large group…no more crowding around a single table to see an object or document.

• Information from a commonly held document. Example: a page from a book can be viewed by entire group to ensure that all students are on the correct page in the correct place. 
• Enlarge all math workbook pages, and worksheets. It is invaluable when reading directions, teaching math games and sharing student work.

It can be used in staff meetings to explain forms and show examples of students work.

• You can do the grades and the daily points on the wall projected from the document camera - everyday to show each students top scores.
• You can use the Elmo document camera to display lessons, literature books, group activities, group lessons, speeches, demonstrations, hands on teaching etc.
• You can use the Elmo document camera to zoom in on parts of a thermometer, and ruler, showing the smallest units and degrees and how to correctly read them
• On all the lessons, the document camera focuses the students on what the teacher is pointing out because they can all see it well, whether it's words, letter combinations, coins and their details.
  
• Music books, sheet music and other teaching materials can be used on the document camera. This is a great tool to help teach music reading skills and literacy too.
•  You can use the document camera to display samples of maps, workbook pages, art projects, etc., so that the kids can follow along. In a class where English is not spoken as the native language this reduces the confusion for the children. They are able to successfully attempt the assignment because the document camera provides an effective filter to the barriers presented by giving oral directions.  You can go over tests with students to show correct answers, this is especially useful in multiple choice tests.
• Display books for reading, when class sets are not available.
• You can use the Elmo document camera to take snap shots of previous class topics and then use this to reflect on activities/work so they could remember the process and explain why they did things in a certain way. When the projects were finished the documentation can help the students to explain their project and its process to their parents during a student led parent conference.
• The Document camera can be used to turn written work into a digital format for linking to the PowerPoint. Much faster than a scanner. Once it is focused in, the process is just place the work, snap the picture and save.
•  You can invert the camera so children can appear “on television” as if in a newscast for book reviews, reading and poetry.

ELMO provides allot of valuable content and information to assist teachers when using document cameras within a classroom environment. This can be easily accessible for teachers on the go via the websites such as www.elmoglobal.com

http://www.elmousa.com/ Elmo is has dedication YouTube channels with product demonstrations and lesson plans.

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