CITL Has a Lightboard!

Very often showing students how to work through a problem will help them learn. Similarly, many faculty are most comfortable teaching when able to stand at a board and diagram solutions. On the other hand, each student learns at his or her own pace. In the past, this required compromise.

No longer. CITL has added another tool to its arsenal to help faculty create dynamic content which students can use on their own.

CITL worked with UMaine’s Innovative Media Research & Commercialization Center to make a light board–a piece of glass on a stand illuminated with LED lights around its perimeter.  

The instructor stands behind the glass board and talks while writing with markers that fluoresce under the LED lights. We place a camera facing the instructor through the glass and record all of the action as a video. When the instructor finishes, we use software to make the image display correctly.

The light board helps instructors produce and annotate high quality demonstrations.

Take a look at a brief clip of UMaine’s Jim Breece trying out the lightboard for his Macroeconomics course:

https://umaine.edu/citl/people/justin-hafford-mals/