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USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)

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Re: USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)

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Huh it looks like she horizontally mirrors the camera so that the writing appears forwards not backwards. At first I thought she might have been writing in reverse, which would be doable on simple graphs but harder with more words. Later shots show her writing on-camera, forwards from her perspective.

It's a functionallity in zoom, I believe.

That only mirrors what you see when you look at yourself---it doesn't flip what everybody else sees.

Re: USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)

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post #21
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a functionallity in zoom, I believe.

That only mirrors what you see when you look at yourself---it doesn't flip what everybody else sees.

There's a "mirror my video" setting. https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/04/how-to-reverse-mir...

Re: USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)

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post #5

Not sure why this title has "goes viral", it is nothing new. Almost 8 years ago, Dr. Jules White explained a simpler setup(at least IMO as less software) in very detail with a Mirror: Building a Low-cost Lightboard for Video Lectures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwXOLU4TKk

I would consider top 10 on HN front page to be "going viral."

TIL I've gone viral!

Re: USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)

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post #5

Not sure why this title has "goes viral", it is nothing new. Almost 8 years ago, Dr. Jules White explained a simpler setup(at least IMO as less software) in very detail with a Mirror: Building a Low-cost Lightboard for Video Lectures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwXOLU4TKk

Things can go viral long after they are invented. And they can go viral more than once. Just like a real virus!

Re: USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)

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post #5

Not sure why this title has "goes viral", it is nothing new. Almost 8 years ago, Dr. Jules White explained a simpler setup(at least IMO as less software) in very detail with a Mirror: Building a Low-cost Lightboard for Video Lectures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwXOLU4TKk

The same reason things describe themselves as One Weird Trick, or N Unbelievably Adjective Things, claim that The Internet Cannot Handle them, etc. very quickly ad nauseam.

I can't stand it, won't click them, but clearly I'm abnormal and it works, most people love it (or have a 'FOMO' on it) and click them.

Re: USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)

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post #24
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That only mirrors what you see when you look at yourself---it doesn't flip what everybody else sees.

There's a "mirror my video" setting. https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/04/how-to-reverse-mir...

Agreed that the setting exists; disagree about what it does.

What that option toggles what you see when you look at yourself. The audience always sees the unmirrored video.

This is not clearly explained in the documentation. However, it is mentioned here

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204065759-Zoom-Roo...

for example, where they say of the option "Note: You can tap the Enable video mirroring option if you want a mirror effect for your own video display (where the display of your own Zoom Room looks like a mirror)."

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