Faculty + Staff

Rebecca

Smith

Assistant Professor

Architecture, Humanities Social Sciences and Communication
Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences

Professional Background

I hold an undergraduate degree in New Media from SUNY Purchase, a professional degree in Architecture from UC Berkeley, and a PhD in Architectural Design Studies from the University of Michigan. I am an Assistant Professor in Architecture with a dual appointment in Humanities, Social Sciences and Communication (HSSC), where I teach studio and seminar courses in urban design and critical technology studies.

My work deals broadly with the social and political stakes of technological objects and mediated artifacts, and their relationship to the built, social, and political space of the urban context. I situate my work within Feminist Science, Technology and Society Studies (F-STS), geography, and media studies to work reflexively between tangible material artifacts, spaces, social interactions, and forms of information, data, and representation. I incorporate critical speculative design in my teaching and practice, to underscore the role of affect, belief, and narrative in producing and sustaining the political implications of designed sociotechnical artifacts.

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.