Thread by @TessaRDavis

Level up your online teaching sound quality. Allow the audience to concentrate on you and not your crackling audio. Online teaching isn't going away - embrace it.

Think about:

Choosing a mic + positioning it
Optimising your room size/echo
Reducing background noise

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Don't use your comp mic. Two broad mic types to consider:

-A dynamic mic - good if you can be close to the mic & need to filter out background noise.

-A condenser mic - captures more delicate sounds, good if you want the mic to be out of shot

Range of prices for each

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Room size/echo. Can you reduce the echo in the room?

This can be done just by putting a rug on your floor (if you don't have carpet) or a screen up. Foam sound panels are cheap + can go on the wall near you

Small changes but can make a big difference to sound quality

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Background noise. With a condenser mic in particular, background noise gets picked up. Try to minimise your washing machine going/doors opening when presenting at home

Getting closer to a dynamic mic & ensuring you have the right position of your mouth + the mic will help

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Clearly way more to discuss with each of these. But it's time for us all to start thinking about how to improve our tech. Teaching is all about content.

Online learning allows us to be distracted by grainy audio and video and the content gets lost.

Time to level up.

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