{"id":2465,"date":"2010-07-27T21:57:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T13:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2010-07-27T21:57:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T13:57:21","slug":"library-day-in-the-life-in-five-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/27\/library-day-in-the-life-in-five-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Day in the Life in Five Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been at Curtin University for a week and a half now. The students are back next Monday. As part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/librarydayinthelife.pbworks.com\/Round-5%2C-July-26th%2C-2010\">Library Day in the Life project<\/a>, here is a 5 minute video post about what my day was like &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=25s61S5R1Ik\">Library Day in the  Life in Five Minutes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At about the three minute point, I take you on a tour of my whiteboard and my office&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/25s61S5R1Ik&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1?rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I am hoping to make a weekly &#8220;hi there, have you thought about *this*&#8221; 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoom.co.jp\/english\/products\/q3\/\">Zoom Q3<\/a> Handyshare to make the videos. It has studio-quality audio with the added bonus of a video attached &#8211; with about the video quality of a Flip camera. It looks like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/q3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2468\" title=\"q3\" src=\"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/q3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What you don&#8217;t see in this clip is the twenty others I made before with such thrilling content as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> &#8220;This is with the window behind me and the overhead light on&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;This is on the rounded end of my desk, with the desk lamp on and the overhead light off&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;This is up against the back wall of my office with all light sources and the camera on a filing cabinet&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; as I tried to find a light source that made me look human and not like a kidnapper.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/strobist.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/how-to-improve-your-cheapo-webcams.html\">How to Improve Your Cheapo Webcam&#8217;s Picture  Quality<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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 &#8211; Library Day in the Life in Five Minutes. 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