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For several semesters, the University of Hamburg, a service called Lecture2Go to. The person responsible there have equipment and know-how for successful recording of lectures and other presentations. There you will find, for example, the lectures on software module development 2

About a term I had heard that a fellow student who organized such a Lecture2Go-Aufnahmeset for a lecture in the motley seminar. I immediately found interesting, because I think much of it, knowledge as possible to make it accessible to everyone who have interest in it. A record like that Lecture2Go allows to go beyond the limits of personal presence and presentation experience at a later time and / or elsewhere in the world with.

For my presentation last Tuesday on "Multilingualism in teaching at the University of Hamburg" I bought it at times addressed: I have organized all necessary and carried out to record these and to Lecture2Go world public to the public. Perhaps you are interested in how I'm been involved.

Teams in the course

First off, the organizer of course agree, in this case I was not himself, but Dr. Bernd Meyer from linguistics. In this letter had to end but nothing that I only had as a speaker.

Furthermore, should the public as to Lecture2Go and the recording will be informed in advance. Since the audience is not usually filmed, there is no consent requirement. However, you should politely point out that conversation and sounds in the room in the recording can be heard softly.

Interact with the team Lecture2Go

Lecture2Go The project is part of the media center of excellence of the RRZ. There, in the Schlüterstraße, you will find these people then. These are three very dedicated young people who enjoy their project, and usually are very accommodating.

There you can borrow the recording hardware. Also signs you want to grant them the right to publish the recording on the Web (non-exclusive). In commitments it has really only ensure that by the argument (in particular the films) no rights of third parties, that eg No images have stolen. But you will anyway sure of costs and therefore that no great effort.

Recording

Technically this works with a video camera and tripod, a wireless microphone, a VGA splitter of the video signal can provide the presentation to the recording computer and an Apple MacBook to the it's all connected. The software for recording and editing is now quite foolproof, but it is also still refined. For computer science students with no security problem. However, do they leave before a show you that you can make the MCC people or you know someone (eg me) who has ever done so before.

For my presentation André has kindly agreed to operate the camera, because he knows the procedures already in software development 1. Thanks André!

Publication

After you have available the final video in a handful of formats, it can be put to the Lecture2Go website. This step is unfortunately still the most expensive, at least once. Accounts must be created from Lecture2Go team and courses are assigned. Only upload videos and text descriptions can edit it yourself then it is hoped that this process still can be made more streamlined, if the system should be further scaled up.

Conclusion

When I asked whether this experiment (recording of a seminar presentation of a student) from their point of view is to recommend appropriate and that given by the Lecture2Go team was an enthusiastic "Yeah!". I also had fun and will definitely come back again in future talks on it.

My first Lecture2Go recording

P.S. As Murphy's just the way it wants, Lecture2Go is down apparently, while I was writing these lines. Let us hope that everything is working again as soon as possible.