{"id":2888,"date":"2012-04-26T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T11:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2012-04-26T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T11:09:09","slug":"swivl-in-the-teaching-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2012\/04\/26\/swivl-in-the-teaching-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Swivl in the teaching room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1193\" style=\"margin: 5px\" title=\"Prof Chris Szejnmann wearing Swivl 'marker'\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0007-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Prof Chris Szejnmann wearing Swivl 'marker'\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2012\/04\/DSC_0007-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2012\/04\/DSC_0007-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2012\/04\/DSC_0007-448x300.jpg 448w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2012\/04\/DSC_0007-900x602.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2012\/04\/DSC_0007.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Update to initial review posted on April 24th: as I type, our first academic user of the <a title=\"Swivl website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swivl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Swivl tracking system<\/a>, Prof Chris Szejnmann, Professor of Modern History, is using the Swivl in conjunction with a <a title=\"Zoom Q3HD\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Zoom-Q3HD-Handy-Video-Recorder\/dp\/B004DIL50Y\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1335437947&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Zoom Q3HD pocket camcorder<\/a>\u00a0(which we highly recommend for its unmatched audio recording quality) to capture a seminar. To the best of\u00a0our knowledge, this is the first academic use of the Swivl in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Chris is wearing the infra-red marker attached to his sweater by a tie-clip. The base unit is set up at the back of the small teaching room mounted on a flight case on top of a desk, although it would have been better to mount it to a tripod. (Next time I&#8217;ll remember to take this with me&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>In his next session, Chris will test the Swivl in conjunction with his own iPhone 4S. This will allow him to control the recording remotely, which isn&#8217;t possible with the Zoom or any other pocket camcorder, and *may* give even better audio quality as with this setup the marker doubles up as a wireless microphone.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a (low-quality) clip showing the Swivl in action, tracking Chris as he moves around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update to initial review posted on April 24th: as I type, our first academic user of the Swivl tracking system, Prof Chris Szejnmann, Professor of Modern History, is using the Swivl in conjunction with a Zoom Q3HD pocket camcorder\u00a0(which we highly recommend for its unmatched audio recording quality) to capture a seminar. To the best<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2012\/04\/26\/swivl-in-the-teaching-room\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[66,84,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casestudies","category-capture","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}