Mr. Price Owen, who was my History teacher, loved his opaque projector at Lakewood High School in the 1970s. I enjoyed it when he would put something on there and we would all squint and try to read the information from a book or document. My most vivid memory was that his room was chilly and we all wanted to sit next to the projector for warmth. It wasn’t until I was in my 30’s that I realized that the stories he told and the documents he showed us were from his own life and time in the military. I also remember doing a county map of every county in Colorado using a single page from a document and making it into a poster. These are the memories that students carry with them into the world beyond school. The new age of opaque projectors is a document camera and a … Continue reading DOCUMENT CAMERAS – THE MODERN OPAQUE PROJECTOR