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IPEVO is a classroom technology company that makes multiple desk cameras for online teaching, and notably they sell a folding plastic hanger that clips to the top of an open laptop screen, suspending a mirror over the camera so that a pen and paper pad (or small whiteboard) placed upon the keyboard is readily viewed by the camera. Think of a downwards periscope using your laptop camera to view things you place on the keyboard, on a piece of carboard or other surface that prevents key pressing. IPEVO sells these rather inexpensive plastic mirrors, and provides a lovely piece of freely downloadable support software called “IPEVO Visualizer Software” from their website that corrects image reversals, keystone, contrast, white balance, etc. Bravo, IPEVO! Others have noted that a simple dollar store makeup compact mirror can be attached to a laptop screen with rubber bands, and is similarly effective,...

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