Are you Zoom-ing?

[emer95]

It’s amazing how proficient I’ve become with technology in the past two weeks. I teach 4th grade, so I’ve had to learn to do Google classroom, SeeSaw, Flipgrid, Zoom, and Google Chat. So far I’m doing pretty well!
I miss my parents and siblings terribly, so I’d like to arrange for a Zoom meeting for them. I’m just not sure if my mom can do it without me standing next to her. She’s terrified of technology.
Have any of you been using it? I need to learn how to mute my students. 23 kids talking over each other got a bit chaotic!

 

[Jennasis]

I Facetime my computer illiterate parents daily.

 

[scoutie]

I use it to teach remotely and attend meetings with my team. I used it for a cocktail night with friends on Friday.

 

[RamblingMad]

Used it for book club on Sat. Worked out great.

 

[disneychrista]

Nope! Don't think I have even heard of Zoom until last week.

I also have never used Face Time.

 

[disykat]

I'm zooming on my phone since my computer doesn't have a camera or mic. We had one, but it wasn't working and we looked it up - it's from 2006. Sheesh!

We haven't had any luck locating a camera. We can sinc the phone to the computer to make seeing a bigger group work easier, but it tends to mess things up. This is all so complicated. I'm learning a lesson to not let myself get so far behind on tech.

 

[okeydokey]

For work meetings, and catch-ups with family and friends.

 

[SteveH]

I think Zoom will emerge as a big winner out of this whole mess. Though I wasn't thrilled to hear that, once again, they were caught with their hand feeding the Facebook beast. They claimed they fixed it in the latest iOS version, but still it wasn't their first doing it.

@emer95 are you using the free version of Zoom? As we use the $14/month version I'm not sure what the differences are but you need to sure you are designated as the Host. When you setup the meeting I would start with the "Mute participants upon entry" feature. I was on a different platform with the State and they didn't do this, total chaos as I'd say 75% of the 1500 participants had never used the system, it was destined to fail without the mute feature.

For students you may want to disable the "Private chat" feature so they are not messaging each other.

One thing I've done for all our staff team is to do a quick 10 minute 1 on 1 session so they can learn the in's and out's before a larger group meeting.

 

[bcla]

I've ended up using most of the big ones over the years. Of course Skype is the most common, but it has limitations. I've used Zoom, GoToMeeting, RingCentral, and WebEx. For some strange reason I heard of WebEx first because they had a totally bizarre series of radio and TV commercials featuring RuPaul.

 

[kaytieeldr]

I miss my parents and siblings terribly, so I’d like to arrange for a Zoom meeting for them. I’m just not sure if my mom can do it without me standing next to her. She’s terrified of technology.

I've attended several meetings using Zoom, even before all this. I'm not terrified of technology, but I'm not especially adept, either. It's been a couple of months, but I think you set it up,then invite participants. You provide the link, and maybe a code. It's reasknably simple to join in.

Or, there's Skype.

 

[morgan98]

We have been using Zoom at work for several years, even retrofitting many conference rooms to be used as Zoom rooms - super easy to share computer screens, etc, That part of the work from home experience has been business as usual.

To video most family though we use FaceTime.

 

[teller80]

Yup, just before quarantine our company did some webinar training sessions. We have daily check in meetings and have begun "spirit" days - favorite hat, best virtual background, show-and-tell, etc.

Found out that not everyone sees the same grid layout, but don't know how it's determined.

 

[tvguy]

I hadn't heard of it until week before last. On it now, and have been using it for over a week now. We are all working remotely. They open it up at Midnight, do a staff meeting at 2:15 am, and leave it open through about 630 am. All over staff meetings are done on Zoom.

 

[JaxDad]

I've used it a couple times when set up for conferences with other organizations.

I just heard the "Poor Jennifer" reference for the first time yesterday...

 

[firefly_ris]

I've been using GoToMeeting for work for years but the kids teachers have been using Zoom to set up video meetings.

Unfortunately some school districts around here are going to stop using it because there is a big issue with meetings getting hacked into.

Just yesterday my daughter had a meeting with 30 other students and her band teachers, and suddenly some lady popped in there and started talking about essential oils and then cursing. The teacher couldn't figure out how to get rid of her but she did at least get her on mute. But now districts are going to need to figure out an alternative.

 

[nene0182]

Nope. We use Skype for work but since I don’t have a camera on my work computer, it’s typically used just to share desktop views for reports and what not.

 

[choirfarm]

I've used it a couple times when set up for conferences with other organizations.

I just heard the "Poor Jennifer" reference for the first time yesterday...

Yeah, I'm using it a lot for my grad work, my friend groups and for church.

Ok, what does poor Jennifer mean? Never heard of that.

 

[JaxDad]

Yeah, I'm using it a lot for my grad work, my friend groups and for church.

Ok, what does poor Jennifer mean? Never heard of that.

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/othe...mera-on-while-going-to-the-toilet/ar-BB11zs9v

 

[JaxDad]

I've been using GoToMeeting for work for years but the kids teachers have been using Zoom to set up video meetings.

Unfortunately some school districts around here are going to stop using it because there is a big issue with meetings getting hacked into.

Just yesterday my daughter had a meeting with 30 other students and her band teachers, and suddenly some lady popped in there and started talking about essential oils and then cursing. The teacher couldn't figure out how to get rid of her but she did at least get her on mute. But now districts are going to need to figure out an alternative.

There is actually a thing called "Zoombombing." The teacher and students were lucky the intruder was just pushing essential oils!

 

[choirfarm]

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/othe...mera-on-while-going-to-the-toilet/ar-BB11zs9v

Ha! Ha! Yeah, reminds me of the time they forgot to turn the pastor's mic off after he baptized someone.