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)
#2Huh 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.
Re: USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)
#3Huh 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.
Yeah, she uses OBS to flip the recording (she mentions “in software” in the video in the tweet, and the interview mentions OBS)
Re: USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)
#4This is not new. It's been around for a while. E.g.:
Re: USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)
#5Not 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
Re: USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)
#6This is not new. It's been around for a while. E.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw5t6BTQYRU
Neither She nor the article claims it is new. The nifty part is the DIY aspect that makes this decade old technology potentially widwly accessible for teachers. Even that isn't new, but spreading the knowledge of the tool and how to make is accessible is still highly valuable.
Re: USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)
#7Not 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."
Re: 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)
#9Whoa this is awesome.
I would like to buy/build one of these for my home office? What's the best guide or best pre-built?
Honestly I'd rather just throw money at someone whose built one for me. But either way is fine.
Re: USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)
#10Huh 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.