Higher Education Whisperer

Frankly set, ABC TV, 2022 Recently I attended a recording of ABC TV's Frankly chat show . This got me thinking that the same studio layo...

As a backup for my desktop computer during webinars, I put my smartphone in a $10 car-cradle. This has a suction cup I stuck to a CD case, t...

Brucks, and Levav  (2022) have found that people were significantly less productive via video conference, than at a face to face meeting. Th...

Unhappy with the finish with  fluorescent poster paint on my green screen for a virtual Zoom background, I decided to go back to using wall...

Recently I upgraded my home office with a web camera featuring a zoom lens and manual focus. This allows adjusting the image to just includ...

Fluorescent Green Screen I have repainted my  Folding Green Screen  with bright green fluorescent paint , for better virtual background cont...

Greetings from the King & Wood Mallesons' International Arbitration Webinar on India. Amanda Lees is chairing the session. I am not...

I took part in my first hybrid lecture at The Australian National University, for computing students yesterday. This went okay with 10 stude...

6in. Tabletop Selfie Ring Light  When using a virtual background with video conferencing, it is important to have even lighting, otherwise ...

2x telephoto lens & virtual background in Zoom.  Tom Worthington, 24 July 2021 CC BY Web cameras tend to have a wider field of view, tha...

The second hand  folding room divider Lilac folding screen, in Zoom with virtual background.  Vertical fold lines visible.  Photo by Tom Wor...

Blue folding screen, with vertical fold lines. Photo by Tom Worthington,  20 July 2021 CC BY The second hand folding room divider  , I paint...

Green folding screen, with two vertical fold lines. Photo by Tom Worthington,  17 July 2021 CC BY The low cost photographic backdrop sheet ...

Tom Worthington in chroma key body suit, without hood, so just face shows For the last year and a half I have been giving workshops from hom...

Stanford University's large scale Zoom class I had to check twice to see Stanford University's large scale Zoom class was not a spo...

Jeremy N. Bailenson has written a thought provoking commentary on the causes of fatigue from using video conferencing (2021). He suggested...

There has been much written about the stresses caused for students having to study online this year due to COVID-19. There has been less on ...

Greetings from  EduTECH 2020  online via Zoom from Australia. This comes hot on the heels of EduTech Asia last week from Singapore. Pasi Sa...

Greetings from the 2020 UQ Work Integrated Learning Symposium , currently on Zoom from Queensland University. This is free and on for four h...

Back in March I suggested to Zoom, they add a low bandwidth option which the participant can switch on (request #3204325, priority "h...