Posts I’ve been at Curtin University for a week and a half now. The students are back next Monday. As part of the Library Day in the Life project, here is a 5 minute video post about what my day was like – Library Day in the Life in Five Minutes.
At about the three minute point, I take you on a tour of my whiteboard and my office….
I am hoping to make a weekly “hi there, have you thought about *this*” video for my students. All the students in one unit and about two thirds in the other are studying online only, so I hope that a video will make me seem less faceless. I have bought a Zoom Q3 Handyshare to make the videos. It has studio-quality audio with the added bonus of a video attached – with about the video quality of a Flip camera. It looks like this:
What you don’t see in this clip is the twenty others I made before with such thrilling content as:
- “This is with the window behind me and the overhead light on”;
- “This is on the rounded end of my desk, with the desk lamp on and the overhead light off”;
- “This is up against the back wall of my office with all light sources and the camera on a filing cabinet”
- as I tried to find a light source that made me look human and not like a kidnapper.
It would have been even better if I wore a white shirt and used some of the other tips and tricks in the article that first made it all click for me about how lighting worked with video cameras – How to Improve Your Cheapo Webcam’s Picture Quality
Wow, thank you for sharing your day, you look great in the video!!!
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Great post Katherine!! Love hearing about your first week as an academic. Great lighting! Hope you continue to be a pig in mud!
I want to do that unit again, with you teaching.
I’d love to learn about using ebook readers in a library, Oh well I’ll just have to ask you next time I see you 
Still oinking!
Sounds great Kathryn,
Whats the name of that Unit – can I enrol in it?
At Curtin I did a Grad Dip of Internet (Content Mgt stream) about 2006- with Prof Allen etc . The purpose was to update as Librarian – so I wasnt surprised at all when some of this Web2.0 hit just after that. Still need updating -beiong a baby boomer-though
Ralph the Librarian (Tafe)