On this episode, we talk with Michael Justason from McMaster University and the LightBoard Depot about online communication. Specifically, we talk about how to do it better.
Michael has been teaching in person and online for years and he’s learned some tricks that he says, in some ways, have made him more effective online than in person.
Now this was a surprise even to him, and he’s going to explain.
Overall, our goal is to share with you these tricks, plus some tools, that Michael has found along the way. We’ll cover a few basic things you can do with lighting, sound, positioning, etc. that will apply to anyone that spends any time communicating online. That’s pretty much all of us these days.
Then, we’ll show you the LightBoard. This is a tool that allows Michael to interact with his content in new and interesting ways that his students call “next level”.
Some of this is a bit more sophisticated, but not as hard or as expensive as you may think. And it can have a dramatic impact on the effectiveness of your online communications. This is where those of you who do corporate training and education are going to want to listen up.
Watch the interview on video here – jump to 10 minutes and 30 seconds for the LightBoard demo.
Michael Justason
Michael D. Justason, M.Eng., MBA, P.Eng., F.CSCE
Assistant Professor and Program Chair, Civil Engineering Infrastructure Technology
Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University
At McMaster, Michael teaches courses in geotechnical and foundation engineering and engineering economics. He is a graduate of Civil Engineering and Management and a Masters in Civil Engineering, both from McMaster. Michael also holds an executive-MBA from Western University, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Dept. of Civil Engineering at McMaster.
Before McMaster, Michael worked for Bermingham Foundation Solutions (now Soletanche-Bachy Canada) for 18-years. His roles at Bermingham included: Product Manager and Engineering Manager. His main areas of expertise include pile driving and deep foundations. Michael spent 10-years as the Product Manager for the innovative StatnamicTM load testing technology, invented by Bermingham, and he was the primary author of a new ASTM Specification related to the technology. Michael is active in several industry organizations and served as the 2014-15 president of the Pile Driving Contractors Association. In his work with Bermingham, Michael travelled to over 40 countries and has worked on major civil engineering projects on 6 continents. Some notable projects include Taipei 101, the Library of Alexandria, the Burj Al Arab Tower Hotel in Dubai; the Levees in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina; and the reconstruction of the Hanshin Expressway in Kobe, Japan.
In 2019, Michael won the President’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning – McMaster’s highest honour for teaching. He is also the co-founder and CEO of LightBoard Depot Inc., a start-up company that manufactures and sells innovative solutions for improving student engagement in online teaching.
In 2022, Michael was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.
LightBoard Depot
The LightBoard Depot Inc.’s innovative product provides a glass pane between the presenter and the webcam, allowing instructors to write on it as they would on a traditional whiteboard while facing their audience. Unlike previous solutions, The LightBoard addresses the impersonal nature of digital meetings by providing presenters with familiar tools used in classrooms or boardrooms.
The LightBoard Depot Inc.’s remarkable technology enables presenters to share visuals on the screen and interact with them in real time. The crystal-clear screen automatically reverses the text, ensuring optimal readability for viewers. Already trusted by over one hundred top-rated institutions across North America, The LightBoard Depot Inc.’s solution revolutionizes education by enhancing the remote learning experience and addressing the challenges of online classrooms.
Web: https://www.lightboarddepot.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightboard-depot-inc
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