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Twitch do streaming really well and you can use Discord to chat. Half the students will already be on Discord and probably on Twitch too. For a blackboard, wh

Twitch do streaming really well and you can use Discord to chat. Half the students will already be on Discord and probably on Twitch too. For a blackboard, why? With a computer you have infinite space as long as you're using some kind of note taking software. I know that I've abused OneNote's live editing feature to draw on my laptop screen via my tablet + pen. Plus everything electronic can be exported and shared.

jlangemeier 7y ago
And a wacom tablet can be a cheap way to supplement writing, drawing, and diagramming if you don't have a touch screen type device. There are also capture cameras that I've had lecturers use and seen artists use that could be put to good use here if the person providing instruction wants the actual "paper feel" while still providing those hand drawn results.
copperx 7y ago
What are the advantages of Twitch over something more business-y like Zoom?
- radicalbyte 7y ago
  I've had better experience with the consumer/gaming tools than I have with "Business" tools. It's probably because they stay more focussed whilst the business tools morph into hydras as part of their data lock-in strategies (here's looking at you, Slack).
  - scrumbledober 7y ago
    discord voice chat is miles beyond nicer than slack or zoom.
wrsh07 7y ago
I would love to see teachers take a page out of programming twitch streamers book and get proper live streaming setups I don't know that twitch is the best platform (honestly, it might be! It's used for this every day at a much larger scale than most schools imagine), but regardless, streamers have figured out pretty great and economical setups for streaming. (Eg https://medium.com/@suzhinton/my-twitch-live-coding-setup-b2516672fb21 https://medium.com/@suzhinton/my-twitch-live-coding-setup-b2... but I'm sure there are many many similar publications, some which might be better for beginners)

jlangemeier 7y ago

And a wacom tablet can be a cheap way to supplement writing, drawing, and diagramming if you don't have a touch screen type device. There are also capture cameras that I've had lecturers use and seen artists use that could be put to good use here if the person providing instruction wants the actual "paper feel" while still providing those hand drawn results.

copperx 7y ago

What are the advantages of Twitch over something more business-y like Zoom?

radicalbyte 7y ago
I've had better experience with the consumer/gaming tools than I have with "Business" tools. It's probably because they stay more focussed whilst the business tools morph into hydras as part of their data lock-in strategies (here's looking at you, Slack).
- scrumbledober 7y ago
  discord voice chat is miles beyond nicer than slack or zoom.

wrsh07 7y ago

I would love to see teachers take a page out of programming twitch streamers book and get proper live streaming setups I don't know that twitch is the best platform (honestly, it might be! It's used for this every day at a much larger scale than most schools imagine), but regardless, streamers have figured out pretty great and economical setups for streaming. (Eg https://medium.com/@suzhinton/my-twitch-live-coding-setup-b2516672fb21 https://medium.com/@suzhinton/my-twitch-live-coding-setup-b2... but I'm sure there are many many similar publications, some which might be better for beginners)