Keep The Presenter and The Content in The Same View

Here at OTH Amberg-Weiden, we have around 4,600 students spread across four faculties and approximately 48 degree programmes. We are always looking for modern, innovative and engaging presentation technologies, especially for our digital self-learning units. And during this search, we also came across the Smart-Lightboard™, which now brings a significant benefit to our self-learning units. When I first saw the finished video, I genuinely thought to myself: okay, how does that work? I had never seen it like that before. It was unusual, and I actually thought it was really cool, because you could see the presenter writing in the video while still facing the camera. I found that almost a little mysterious. With picture-in-picture, you always have the camera with the teacher on one side and the content on the other. As a learner, you constantly have to look back and forth. With the Smart-Lightboard™, you have the advantage that both are combined in one place. And as a teacher, you have the opportunity to address your learners in a much more personal way. From my point of view, it is another innovative step in the field of presentation technologies. For the first time, it goes beyond the rather static style of presenting on a traditional lightboard, because you can also interact dynamically with objects directly on the Lightboard. And the colleagues who have tried it so far have been very impressed and enthusiastic. Hello. Hello. Welcome to the studio. Today we are recording with the Smart-Lightboard™. My name is Romy Hösl. I lead the Centre of Excellence for Digital Teaching here and I am a lecturer in online course development, authoring systems and AI in teaching within the Educational Technology degree programme. The Smart-Lightboard™ is, first of all, a great opportunity to shorten our production times, because we need to prepare much less and worry less about whether there is enough space because the space is essentially unlimited. That makes our production much, much easier. It will probably also lower the barrier for teachers to simply work with the Lightboard, because there is less effort involved. It is more flexible. If I use a Miro board, for example, my workspace is limitless and I can move back and forth within it. I am not tied to that fixed presentation flow, and I can also move more freely within my presentation than if I were making a classic screencast or simply following PowerPoint. Of course, I know the analogue Lightboard, where we write on it with a marker and then spend ten minutes cleaning everything off again. With a Smart-Lightboard™, you can clear the entire screen with one click. The Smart-Lightboard™ is suitable for all concepts that include online components, such as inverted classroom. But of course it is also suitable for purely online teaching, because and this is very important in teaching it helps to maintain students’ attention. It is best used especially in STEM fields, such as mathematics and technical subjects. That is where we have mainly used it, particularly when creating explainer videos for formulas or calculation methods in mathematics. I can also imagine it working well for the basics of chemistry and biology. Perhaps also when trying to integrate 3D elements and use technical visualisation possibilities. One of our goals, for example, is to implement live lectures and online lectures. And then we also want to try to enable students to use the Smart-Lightboard™ for their projects. Students can, of course, use the Smart-Lightboard™ just as well. There are concepts that are tailored to this, such as learning by teaching. Here, students practise questions such as: How do I design my teaching? How do I structure a lesson? And for that, the Smart-Lightboard™ is, of course, an excellent digital tool. Our task is: we have to promote ourselves. Why are we good at creating online courses for this company? My plan is to create the whole thing with the Smart-Lightboard™ in seven short two- to three-minute videos, and then to use a whiteboard tool to produce videos ourselves essentially to promote ourselves as virtual service providers. The experience with the Smart-Lightboard™ is a new, lively way of teaching, because all kinds of tools, apps and visualisation possibilities can be incorporated. Yes, I would definitely recommend it, because it continues the development of digital presentation possibilities.

In this video, we are going to talk about something that happened to me a couple of weeks ago and also where we are taking this channel going forward. My name is Jimmy Engström, and I work as a lead developer for a company here in Sweden. By night, I am a content creator. I'm a Microsoft MVP, and last year, I became educator of the year, which is something that I'm really proud of. And together with my wife, we are running a small tech company mostly focused on creating content and educational material. When it comes to video content, I've been doing live streaming, YouTube videos, and also recorded courses online. So teaching by video is something that is very central to all the things that I do. My name is Jessica Engström. I'm an educator in the tech industry. I'm also awarded Microsoft MVP in the DevTech category. Me and my husband, Jimmy, we have been live streaming for a couple of years now. We also run a YouTube channel where we do mostly developer content and UX and accessibility content as well. I'm also an educator, so I have been more and more since the pandemic going towards online classes or even hybrid classes. The challenge before we got the Smart Lightboard is that either you would be like talking head down small in the corner of the image or you would use a whiteboard and then you would often turn your back to the audience to scribble something. When I saw the lightboard for the first time and this was the analog one, it really blew my mind. Then I saw the smart lightboard, and it changed everything. You get the power of a whiteboard, but more immersive. You can be up front and center with the content, which makes it so much more immersive. And you can circle things, you can point to things, and the audience will immediately know what you are you're referring to. You are inside of the content. You can explain complex things, and you can keep the eye contact with the audience at any time. Another area which I found very helpful is when you are collaborating, redoing a website or building a website for that matter, you can sit down with the whole team and I can show them a sketch and we can instantly draw and sketch out what we need to do going forward. That shared visual context is super powerful. The really nice thing is that we can use our own applications. We can use Miro. We can use Paint, and we can use whatever application that we're used to. This also works with Teams calls, Zoom calls, or whatever it may be. So it doesn't have to be presentation. It can be in your everyday life. What we noticed is that the time from idea to we're starting to record and showing something is so much shorter now. And that's why we got the Smart Lightboard, because it's so easy to create really good content without an enormous effort. Now I'm a software developer, so I immediately saw that I can develop for this. So I started building my own software where inking is actually turned into text, a font that is easy to read because I usually say that I write encrypted because I can't read it and you definitely can't read it. As an educator, I have run a lot of hybrid and online accelerated learning programs and classes. When you're teaching, it's keeping the audience engaged and explaining complex things in an easier to understand way is super important. And the Smart Lightboard actually helps with that because I can emphasize exactly what's important and that actually transfers to the audience even if it's an online class. So would I recommend this smart lightboard for everyone else? Absolutely. I mean, it's so simple to create content. It is so easy to just switch over and show something on the lightboard. If you have a setup where you are talking to the audience in one setup and just move over to the lightboard, so the only thing you need, projector, the smart lightboard, and the camera, and you're all set. We're not only business partners, we're also co creators and conference speakers. Podcasters. Yeah. And of course, we are married. We are married. And now most people, they have a kitchen table. We don't. We have a smart light board. We do.