Case-Study: Amberg-Weiden Technical College

Here at OTA Hamburg Weiden, we have around four thousand six hundred students spread over four faculties and around forty-eight courses of study. We are always looking for modern, innovative and appealing presentation technologies, especially for our digital self-learning units. And during this search, we also came across the Smart Lightboard, which is now a significant benefit for our self-learning units. First I actually watched the finished video and thought to myself, okay, how does that work? That was already seen, I had never seen it like this before, was unusual and I actually thought it was really cool, because you saw the protagonist writing a video there and still face the camera. I found that kind of mysterious, almost a bit. You always have picture in picture, that you have the camera with the teacher and then the content and as a learner, you have to look back and forth the whole time. I just have the advantage that both are in one and you have a much more personal approach, you have the opportunity to address your learners in a much more personal way as a teacher. In my opinion, it is another innovative step in the area of presentation technologies. For the first time, it goes beyond more static presentation on a classic lightboard, which also allows you to dynamically interact with objects directly on the lightboard. And the colleagues who have tried it out so far are very impressed and enthusiastic about it. Hello. Hello. Welcome to the studio here. We're taking a basic Smart warehouse survey today. My name is Romy Hösel. I head the Competence Center for Digital Teaching here and am a lecturer for online course development, authoring systems and for AI in teaching in the Educational Technology degree program. First of all, Smart Lightboards is a great opportunity to shorten our production times, because we have to prepare ourselves much less, have to think about it, there is enough space because the space is virtually infinite. This makes our production much, much easier and will probably also lower the inhibition for teachers to simply work with Lightboard, because there is also less effort behind it for them. Is more flexible. When I use Miro Board now, my space is limitless and I can go back and forth there and I am not bound to this presentation flow and can also move around my presentation more freely than when I'm doing a classic screencast or simply following PowerPoint. I can of course use the analog lightboard, where we write on it with pen and then it's ten minutes to clean everything clean again. And with a Smart Lightboard, you can delete the entire screen with one click. The Smart Lightboard is suitable for all concepts that include online components, such as inverted classroom. But of course, it is also suitable for purely online teaching, because, and this is very important in teaching, it helps to maintain students' attention. It is best used especially in the STEM sector, such as mathematics, technical subjects. We used it especially when we used explanatory videos for formulas or calculation methods in mathematics in particular. This is a good way to present chemistry basics under biology. Maybe if you also try, so yes, to include three-D things and use technical visualization options about them. One of our goals, for example, is to implement live lectures and online lectures. And then we also want to try so that students can use this for their projects. Students can of course use the Smart Lightboard just as well. There are concepts that are tailored to this, such as learning through teaching. Students train here, how do I design my teaching, how do I set up lessons? And yet, of course, the Smart is an excellent digital tool. Our job, we have to apply ourselves. Why are we good at creating online courses for this company? And my plan is to create the whole thing with the Smart Lightboard, with seven short two-minute, three-minute videos and then use a whiteboard tool to create a video myself, so to speak, to advertise ourselves as a virtual service provider. service providers. The experience with the Smart Lightboard is a new, lively way of teaching, because all sorts of tools, apps and visualization options can be included. Yes, I definitely recommend it to others, as it continues the path of digital presentation options.