 This is the first video with and about our new lightboard at Venier that we built with the $1300 Salty's mini-grant in this spring 2019. First of all, what is a lightboard? A lightboard is a transparent surface on which you can write and which is used to create educational videos. The main advantage of using this type of technology is that you can actually face the camera while writing. Usually, if we do educational videos, you would face the board and you would not look into the camera, so you can get more engaging, more personal videos. The board works on the principle of total internal refraction. All around there are LEDs that send light into the board and wherever you write on it, the light will refract out and becomes visible. Also on the back here on board we have some additional LEDs to light up the person that will be standing behind it. Like everyone else that I told about this board, you're probably now wondering if you're standing behind the board and filming from the other side, do you have to write backwards? The answer is of course not. We're simply using the software to flip the video horizontally. Apart from still having to find a better background, one of the main issues I found out when doing my first two educational videos using the board was that cleaning takes a lot of time. So if you want to use this board, you have to be prepared to spend a lot of time cleaning it. If you're interested in the videos that I will be creating using this board, please sign up to my YouTube channel and have a look at the Lightboard playlist.