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!!!
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,
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 🙂 Whats the name of that Unit – can I enrol in it?
Ralph the Librarian (Tafe)
🙂 Ralph. I am teaching the core Information Management Technologies class that all first years and all Grad Dips have to do. It is 104/501. As to enrolling you would need to contact Chris Richardson who handles the Postgraduate enrolments .. c dot richardson at curtin dot edu dot au …