And please, please, for your attendee’s sake, don’t use your onboard laptop mic. No one wants to listen to a static-ky or garbled mic all day. You can use any other headset if you’d like, but microphone quality is key. Headset/Microphone: I use a Hypercloud Cloud X Gaming Headset. Ring light, attached to a monopod, and affixed to the arm, just behind my monitor Not the prettiest of solutions, but it worked great! NOTE: There’s not a straightforward way to mount this light to your workstation, so I used a monopod and some Velcro ties to attach it to my monitor arm. Again, if attendees can’t see you, then they’ll lose interest in what you have to say. I bought a 12" LED Ring Light to provide directional light on my face. This is awesome, but it also casts a lot of shadows across my face. Ring Light (optional): I don’t know about your office setup, but I have a lot of natural light coming from my window. If attendees can’t see you, they’ll lose interest in what you have to say. Just remember, your video quality is important. With the configuration detailed below, I was able to achieve that and I really do believe it offered a great deal energy and polish to our remote workshop.Ĭamera: I used a Microsoft LifeCam Studio for Business, but you can use any webcam. I wanted music while attendees were waiting to get started, I wanted sound effects to punctuate points or land jokes, and I wanted the ability to play funny video clips on command. This ensured that all attendees would know where to find us (in the General channel of our workshop’s Microsoft Teams space), before we split up to complete group activities.Ī meeting posted in the General channel for each day of the workshop.Įven though it was a traditional Microsoft Teams meeting, I still wanted our classroom sessions to have a “broadcast vibe”. Largely because we needed the ability to use the chat and hand raise features - and leverage the familiarity our employees had of traditional Microsoft Teams meetings.Īlso, we wanted to schedule traditional Microsoft Teams meetings for all attendees, for each day of the workshop.
In my situation however, as a workshop facilitator, I couldn’t use a live stream broadcasting configuration like broadcasting to Twitch, YouTube, Mixer, or even Microsoft Teams Live Events.
I would encourage you to read Jeff’s and Scott’s writeups on how they achieved their setups. I was inspired by the work of Twitch streamers like Jeff Fritz and the highly engaging performance of Scott Hanselman and team when they presented our first, completely online, Build conference. One of our biggest goals was to create a fun, vibrant, and engaging virtual “classroom”, particularly we needed to present concepts to attendees, before they went off to work on their group activities. In the previous post, we discussed our goals for running a remote workshop.
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