Exhibits

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Photographs of current classroom environment:
Process Chart and Classroom Management Chart: Writing folder and Curriculum Material:

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Photographs of classroom using digital photography:
Process Chart, Classroom Management, and Writing Folders: Curriculum Materials:

= Exhibit 3: =

__Transcript of a conference:__
A. Do you know what a digital camera is? //Yes, My mom and dad have one and they let me take pictures with it and I use theirs.// B. Have you or someone you know ever used a digital camera? (Did not ask, answered above) C. Did you or your teacher use a digital camera in your kindergarten class? //Well sometimes my teacher would take pictures of us.// Ask: Did you ever use the digital camera to take pictures in kindergarten? //No, just the teacher was aloud to use it// (the camera)//.// If yes: D. What kind of things did your teacher take pictures of in your kindergarten class? //We took pictures of things we did in kindergarten. Teacher: Where did you see photographs in your kindergarten classroom... let me give you some ideas. Did you have pictures on your writing folder? On Charts? In books from your classroom library? Maybe you used them to take attendance or to choose centers? Yeah Yeah, on our writing folders, we brought them home, and then we covered them with pictures. Teacher: Is there anywhere else you saw photographs in school? //Um... there were pictures on our name chart oh yeah and there were pictures of us in the "classroom book." E. How did the pictures help you become a better reader and writer for when you came to first grade? //(pause) I don't know. Teacher: Well...how did you use the pictures on your writing folder? Oh Oh Oh... well, sometimes when I didn't know what to write about I could look at my pictures and then I would have a story for me to write about. Teacher: That's awesome! Yes... using pictures helps give us ideas to write about and soon you will see how looking at pictures can also help us to write more details into our stories. // If no: F. Can you think of any ways we could use the digital camera in this classroom to help you become a better reader and writer? N/A If no: G. Can you think of things that we can take pictures of in this classroom? (wait for answer) How could taking a picture of that help you become a better reader or writer? N/A H. Are you excited about using the digital camera in your classroom? Student: //Are we going to get to take pictures with the cameras?// Teacher: Yes... you all will be using the cameras on your own! Are you excited to use them? Student: //Yes!//

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All (of the nine students) I conferred with knew what a digital camera was and had used one or seen it used with their family in the past. Seven of the nine students remembered having digital photographs in their kindergarten classrooms however, none of the students physically used a digital camera themselves to take the pictures.======