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Valentina
Tobos
Associate Department Chair
Associate Professor of Physics

Dr. Valentina Tobos was born in Bucharest, Romania, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in physics. Following graduation, she taught middle- and high-school physics and prepared students for physics Olympiads.

She received a scholarship and moved to Michigan for graduate work and earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Experimental Solid State Physics from Western Michigan University in 2001.  Her field of study is high-temperature superconductors and her research work was under the supervision of Dr. L.M. Paulius.

Dr. Tobos joined Lawrence Technological University in 2001 and she has been involved ever since with both introductory and advanced physics classes, science education and educational technology programs.  She received LTU’s Mary E. and Richard E. Marburger Faculty Member of the Year Award in 2006 and was part of the physics faculty group that were awarded the 2022 Hsu Family Distinguished Award in Creativity.  Dr. Tobos takes an active role in the American Physical Society programing of “community of transformation in physics enacting strategies to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion” and has held multiple leadership roles on the LTU campus and in the science education community through the Metropolitan Detroit Science Teachers Association.

Dr. Tobos enjoys walking, biking and learning about the world and its peoples through traveling.

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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.