Digital
Microscopy in the Classroom or in the Home
School
Digital Microscope has revolutionized the
microscopic studies in school and has
reduced the hassles for the students. This
technological innovation has simplified the
tasks for students and has resulted in
evolution of paperless classroom. Digital
Microscope is a good teaching tool and it
makes the job much easier.
Digital Microscope has a built in camera
attached to the microscope. The camera aids
in capturing the enlarged images on a
computer screen and the images can also be
displayed on a LCD screen. This aids the
teachers in sharing the microscopic images
simultaneously with a large number of
students.
The digital microscope enables the students
to view the small and enlarged images
simultaneously on the computer screen. The
images can be saved on the hard disc of a
computer and can be studied, re-studied and
measured and manipulated with use of
software. This feature of digital microscope
is different from the conventional
microscope wherein the students had to
collect the images on the papers and at
times they had to repeat the microscopic
study many times.
Digital Microscope comes in with a plug and
play feature and is very simple to use. The
equipment has automatic focus and aperture
adjustments and has built in mouse. This
feature makes this device easy to use and
allows the students to capture images from
different angles and of different resolution
with a click of mouse.
Digital Microscope enables the teachers to
use the images with a host of presentation
tools and make comparison with different
images and different resolutions of the same
image. The images captured by a digital
microscope can be shared on the Internet and
as a result it considerably saves the time
of the students and the teachers. Digital
Microscopy enables the teachers to share the
previously captured images and also helps
the students who have missed the laboratory
sessions.
One of the most important contributions of
digital microscopy is for the teaching of
students with disabilities and learning
difficulties. Such students are not able to
properly see-through the eyepiece of a
microscope. In such cases the digital
microscope can be of great help because the
enlarged images can be viewed on the
computer screen or LCD projection screens.
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