Smart-Lightboard™

Here at OTA Hamburg Weiden, we have around four thousand six hundred students spread over four faculties and around forty-eight courses of study. We are always looking for modern, innovative and appealing presentation technologies, especially for our digital self-learning units. And during this search, we also came across the Smart Lightboard, which is now a significant benefit for our self-learning units. First I actually watched the finished video and thought to myself, okay, how does that work? That was already seen, I had never seen it like this before, was unusual and I actually thought it was really cool, because you saw the protagonist writing a video there and still face the camera. I found that kind of mysterious, almost a bit. You always have picture in picture, that you have the camera with the teacher and then the content and as a learner, you have to look back and forth the whole time. I just have the advantage that both are in one and you have a much more personal approach, you have the opportunity to address your learners in a much more personal way as a teacher. In my opinion, it is another innovative step in the area of presentation technologies. For the first time, it goes beyond more static presentation on a classic lightboard, which also allows you to dynamically interact with objects directly on the lightboard. And the colleagues who have tried it out so far are very impressed and enthusiastic about it. Hello. Hello. Welcome to the studio here. We're taking a basic Smart warehouse survey today. My name is Romy Hösel. I head the Competence Center for Digital Teaching here and am a lecturer for online course development, authoring systems and for AI in teaching in the Educational Technology degree program. First of all, Smart Lightboards is a great opportunity to shorten our production times, because we have to prepare ourselves much less, have to think about it, there is enough space because the space is virtually infinite. This makes our production much, much easier and will probably also lower the inhibition for teachers to simply work with Lightboard, because there is also less effort behind it for them. Is more flexible. When I use Miro Board now, my space is limitless and I can go back and forth there and I am not bound to this presentation flow and can also move around my presentation more freely than when I'm doing a classic screencast or simply following PowerPoint. I can of course use the analog lightboard, where we write on it with pen and then it's ten minutes to clean everything clean again. And with a Smart Lightboard, you can delete 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 the STEM sector, such as mathematics, technical subjects. We used it especially when we used explanatory videos for formulas or calculation methods in mathematics in particular. This is a good way to present chemistry basics under biology. Maybe if you also try, so yes, to include three-D things and use technical visualization options about them. One of our goals, for example, is to implement live lectures and online lectures. And then we also want to try so that students can use this 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 through teaching. Students train here, how do I design my teaching, how do I set up lessons? And yet, of course, the Smart is an excellent digital tool. Our job, we have to apply ourselves. Why are we good at creating online courses for this company? And my plan is to create the whole thing with the Smart Lightboard, with seven short two-minute, three-minute videos and then use a whiteboard tool to create a video myself, so to speak, to advertise ourselves as a virtual service provider. service providers. The experience with the Smart Lightboard is a new, lively way of teaching, because all sorts of tools, apps and visualization options can be included. Yes, I definitely recommend it to others, as it continues the path of digital presentation options.

You want to write and draw onto websites or desktop applications without using anything like PowerPoint or Miro? Then this video is for you! Most of the times when people are using our smart light boards are using PowerPoint or Miro where you can write and draw and also you can actually import graphic assets or even animations or videos and then annotate them. But sometimes you don't want to use any of these. For example, if you want to play with a website how would you do that? Or you have a desktop application and you want to demonstrate something to your audience. I've got two different ways I want to introduce you and how to annotate onto literally anything if you're using the smart lightboard. The first one is a simple web browser extension called page marker. You can just simply go to the website, you add this extension to your Chrome and from that moment you can see this tiny red pen on the top of your browser. And when you click on that, voila! You've got a toolbox. You've got colors, you can change the colors if you want to, you can actually put color codes or anything and then you can literally write onto a website. You can change the size of the pen. Woah that's big! Obviously you can go back or maybe you want to draw a line, but the perfect one. Alright so that was for web browser based applications. But what if you want to use a desktop application? Choose a different method. It's called Epic Pen. Basically this is a desktop application and you can open it up and by having that you can write onto anything PDFs whatever even your emails. Voila! So you've got the good old toolboxes, write, draw, lines, whatever you want to. If you hold this, you can move this over here or over there or whatever you want to put it up to your preference. Choose pen and write and draw. So you can change colors and then you can clean it up again exactly the same way what you would do in Miro. I hope this was helpful but if you have any questions please contact us. Otherwise, if you want to make your presentations impressive, amazing and fun to play with then get a smart lightboard.