Enhance your teaching with our Lightboard Studios and Podcast Studios, designed to create engaging video and audio content. The Lightboard Studio lets you easily create dynamic instructional videos and lectures. Our Podcast Studio provides a professional space with high-quality microphones recording educational podcasts, interviews, and audio lectures. Both studios empower faculty to connect with students through visually and auditory compelling learning experiences.
Lightboard Studio
Each of the Lightboard Studios in the Faculty Center locations at Statesboro and Armstrong allow faculty to increase student engagement success with their class content by creating dynamic videos. With the same level of comfort that presenting with a whiteboard has, these dynamic videos inherently use the Dynamic Drawing Principle, which describes how students learn better when presented with “live” drawings of a concept versus previously created, static images. Lightboard videos show students how to work through course content in “real-time”, such as constructing diagrams, solving simple and complex formulas, and developing an analysis for abstract or concrete issues, rather than traditional videos of a static image with a voice-over.
The Lightboard Studios are set up as “self-service” studios. Once set up, simply click record. Video editing can be done in YuJa or YouTube by the faculty member, or the Faculty Center can assist with editing.
Advantages
- Simulates face-to-face teaching methods
- Engages and captures students’ attention with eye contact and gestures
- Presents your content to students in a way that is natural and familiar
- Lightboard videos add a personal feel in the online platform
- Enhances flipped methods
- Your strengths are visible
- Ideal for STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), but appropriate for any discipline using symbols, drawings, equations, formulas, illustrations, and diagrams to explain complex processes.
82% of students surveyed preferred Lightboard videos*
“From the faculty end, the lightboard set up in the Faculty Center is extremely user friendly. Watching playbacks helped me pinpoint sections that lacked clarity and gain some insight on the student-perspective (What it’s like form their end in one of my lectures).”–Additional Faculty
*via IPad whiteboard delivery in an online biogeochemistry course.
Come by the Lightboard Studio to experience how you can increase student engagement and success with dynamic videos.
Podcast Studio
Each of the Podcast Studios at the Faculty Center at Statesboro and Armstrong locations provide a professional environment for recording high-quality audio content. Whether you’re creating educational podcasts, conducting interviews, or producing audio lectures, our studio is equipped with state-of-the-art microphones, lighting, and editing software. This resource supports faculty in developing rich, auditory learning experiences that can be easily shared with students and the broader academic community.
The Podcast Studios are set up as “self-service” studios. Once all participants are present, simply press the record button. Editing can be done in YuJa or YouTube by the faculty member, or the Faculty Center can assist with editing.
Equipment
- 2 Canon XA40 video cameras
- 4 Shure SM7dB dynamic vocal microphones
- 4 Sony MDR-7506 headphones
- RØDECaster Pro II Integrated Audio Production Studio
Featured Podcast(s)
Roots of Research: The Office of Research’s own Dr. Weindorf created a podcast series that features some of Georgia Southern’s own research champions.
- Episode 4, Interview with Dr. Gabby Swab, January 9, 2026
On the first Roots of Research in 2026, Dr. Weindorf talks Dr. Gabby Swab, Assistant Professor of Management at Parker College of Business at Georgia Southern University, talks about her research on organizational behavior, hypercompetitiveness, and workplace aggression. Swab explains how different motivations for competition shape leadership, teamwork, and well-being. - Episode 3, Interview with Dr. Bettye Apenteng, November 23, 2025
On this episode of the Roots of Research, Dr. Bettye Apenteng, Professor of Health Policy & Community in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University, joins us to explore how context, community engagement and system design shape health outcomes-especially in rural America. - Episode 2, Interview with Dr. Stetson Rowles, October 22, 2025
In this episode of the Roots of Research, host Dr. Weindorf sits down with Dr. Stetson Rowles, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Georgia Southern University, to explore how innovative water technologies can have a real-world impact. - Episode 1, Interview with Dr. Stephen Greiman, October 7, 2025
In this premiere episode of Roots of Research, Dr. David Weindorf sits down with biologist Dr. Stephen Greiman to explore the fascinating world of parasites and the global adventures vehind his research. From Mongolia to Vietnam, Dr. Greiman shares how studying bats, snails, and microscophic symbionts reveals vital clues about emerging diseases and ecosystem health.