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