Before the end of the spring semester, I met with Jose Diaz in City Tech’s Academic Technologies and Online Learning (AtoL) to earn re-certification for teaching online for the next three years (2025-2028). I received this online certificate as a record of the recertification. As a part of the process, I discussed my plans for teaching the online asynchronous Information Architecture (ENG3790) class in Fall 2025.
For my online, asynchronous Science Fiction (ENG 2420) class at City Tech this semester, I am recording my weekly lectures at my desk at home. I think the setup that I created for the second week’s lecture shown above will work out well for my recordings.
I have a 1080p Logitech webcam with stereo mics on the left of my monitor. I have a 2 x 3 ft. foam board propped up on the right side. Originally, this was to cut down on the sound from the living room air conditioner. But, tonight, I setup a temperature controlled LED light to reflect light off the foam board onto me. This produced a much better picture than with the overhead pot lights and even provided nice illumination with the overhead lights turned off as shown.
I used OBS Studio to record my lecture, and I edited the footage with Shotcut. Then, I uploaded the edited MP4 to YouTube.
