Bernarda Hvala, Vrtec Ledina Ljubljana, Dejan Čegovnik, MOJ TV d.o.o

The article will show you how camera as a learning tool is used in kindergarten. The purpose of using video camera was to record the activities of children and how they are reacting and responding. The recordings gave us a chance of multiple reaction monitoring of individual children. In this way we got better insight of each individual in a group and learn about their strong and weak areas. Several times we showed the footages we took to the children and at the same time we filmed their reactions. Children were very interested in footages and while they were watching the tape they commented on it and communicated with each other. Children tried to identified who was on the tape, what he was doing, who was missing that day, etc. By analizing reactions of the children on tape we noticed that they were more intensely involved than in normal activities and they were using vocabulary that we never noticed before.Using the camera to work with the youngest showed us that it is very helpful for the evaluation of activities, for joint reflection with children and also when we are working with parents. The benefits of team work were also shown. Coauthor was of great support because with his advices and support we made better videos. In the future we would like to give children of age 1–3 a chance to handle with a camera so they could record activities in a group. If they will be able to cope with such challanges you will find out at Sirikt 2015.