Strategies for using webcams

This page will be developed over the coming year.

Updated 2nd April 2007.

  1. Urm, to show a ‘place’ live-it just looks great, a educator can then begin to question students’ interpretations of the ‘place’. Of course, what the camera doesn’t show is a more inviting concept to discuss.
  2. Field-sketching. Live Streaming web-cams provide a ‘window on the world’, field-sketching from the classroom may become more motivating as part of a virtual fieldwork study.
  3. Time-lapses-many web-cam sites that show static images, that are periodically updated, have archives that can be accessed, a long term project may be to collect such images, import into a movie making facility and then produce a time-lapse video. If you have the software, live footage can also be captured.
  4. Quality of life- is it possible to use environmental audits to quantify the quality of life the individual may have in a certain place?
  5. Consumer Landscape- can we discuss the features of a consumer landscape using webcams?
  6. Create a ‘Web-cam Wall’.  As described here.
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