ESU has a Lightboard available for faculty and students to use. Put simply, a Lightboard is a glass chalkboard that can be used to record instructional videos that include notes or drawings, all while facing your audience, for a more personal, familiar approach to online lecture.
Made of a 4x8 foot sheet of heat-tempered PPG Starphire architectural glass, enclosed in a lighted frame, the glass is lit internally from all edges, causing neon markers to glow when used on the glass's surface. The recording studio it's housed in automatically flips whatever is written on the back of the glass, so there's no need to know how to write backwards.
Check out this short introductory video (~1 minute) by Lightboard creator Michael Peshkin below:
As Mr. Peshkin states, this type of tool works really well for those who do a lot of drawing or calculations by-hand or need to overlay a fixed object with text during a lecture.
The main drawback of the Lightboard is that the neon markers you have to use to create the glowing text do take a bit more elbow grease to erase. It's not possible to erase as you go like with a standard whiteboard. Also, if you have any text on your shirt, it will appear backwards in the completed video. Otherwise, it's a breeze to use.
The studio that contains our Lightboard is available to students and faculty between eight a.m. and five p.m. on any weekday that the University is open. To reserve the studio, go to our booking website and select Book It. Enter your name, the time and date you would like to reserve the room, and for how long you would like to use the room.
The Lightboard studio is sanitized between each user and the board is cleaned. Due to social distancing policies, the room is only suitable for one person at a time.
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