the renovation
of Shakopee highschool has been two years in the
making in fact this is the very first
year that the new space is open to
students what we did is that we enlarged
our high school to house the growing
population of our students we started
building signature spaces so the one
behind me is a signature space of a
culinary arts lab it's all state of the
art its restaurant grade quality so that
students learn the skills that they need
in order to go out into the workforce so
the goal of this project today was for
students to learn how to fabricate a
chicken this is my culinary arts to
class so I had a chef come in today to
demonstrate that knowledge
I have been a teacher for 18 years now
and I've taught with the mirror method
and I have to say it's not a good model
as a teacher I would constantly hear I
can't see can you move the mirror up can
you move the mirror down and you just
didn't get a very good view of what I
was demonstrating with the DocCAM though
what's nice about it is that when you
shoot it out to the different TV screens
around everyone has a perfect view of
what I'm doing
the DocCAM is extremely easy to use the
reason why it's really easy to use is
very intuitive I do a lot more
demonstrations because it's so easy to
use and I feel that it's impacted
students because they are such visual
learners these days with all their other
technologies that is just with that
additional kind of step in layer for
them to learn the techniques that I'm
trying to show them the best feature of
the DocCAM for me is the zooming in
and out feature I really like that so if
I'm showing something pretty small
pretty technical I can zoom in on it and
then it makes it a lot more easier for
the students to see so I that's one of
the best features
I would recommend the system to other
schools it's just that easy to use
students are always engaged when it's on
just overall the DocCAM has just been a
nice upgrade for our culinary space easy
to pick up easy to use and actually
really fun to have in a classroom
