I now had one of my first lecture on distance after the Coronavirus hit. I had previously had some oral exams, two dissertations and coaching on distance, but this was the first lecture.
This lecture was also part of a pedagogic development course for faculty at Luleå University of Technology, so it felt that I could not just do a session from home with bad lighting, and crappy audio.
This time I chose to go to the university to get a bit better equipment, almost no one else is here so it feels a bit like a post-apocalyptic nightmare when you go to work and you are the only one there;-)
Setup
I have converted one of the conference rooms to a studio.
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| A normal conference room with the Chrommatte backdrop |
- Computer with two 55″ screens and wireless keyboard (used for audio and video)
- Sennheiser SP20 – USB conference microphone
- Logitech PTZ PRO Camera
- Chromatte backdrop
- Reflectmedia LED ring
- Laptop for the presentation (sharing) and chat window.
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| From my view. |
The Reflectmedia Chromatte setup is to improve the virtual background in Zoom that can be quite noisy sometimes. It works like a greenscreen but only from the camera’s viewpoint.
The result from the remote participants is quite nice, it looks similar to this screen if they use a dual-screen setup.
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| What the camera sees. |
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| How it looks in zoom |
Reflection
I think that the presentation went well, I started with an introduction for 20 min and then introduced four different themes that the participant could choose from. I had an idea of creating a poll for this in Zoom but unfortunately, it is only the meeting host that can create polls (and I was the co-host), so I just waited for the participants to say something. In the end, I had created some questions for the participants to discuss and I shared the questions in Mentimeter.
