[nesfa-reading-group] I'd like to experiment with Zoom

David G. Grubbs dggrubbs at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 14:09:29 EDT 2020


Two of you (Louis and David) would be enough to test things.  If anyone
else wants to join, great.

I'll "schedule" a meeting for 8PM and send out the invite.  My first
experiment in doing that.


On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:35 PM Boogalouis <boogalouis at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can do half an hour tonight. 8 or 8:30
>
> Friday would be my next day.
>
> Louis
>
> The bastard child of absurdity and the sublime.
>
> Sent from my MBP, Lepha
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>
>
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> On Apr 14, 2020, at 1:32 PM, david at challengerconsulting.com wrote:
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> I could do 8 tonight.
>
> *Sent from my Sprint Phone.*
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> ------ Original message------
> *From: *David G. Grubbs
> *Date: *Tue, Apr 14, 2020 12:54 PM
> *To: *NESFA Reading Group;
> *Cc: *
> *Subject:*[nesfa-reading-group] I'd like to experiment with Zoom
>
> What time should I schedule a meeting (my first time) with a few of you so
> we can see what kinds of features I have and how to use them?
>
> I watched a few videos on how to manage things and I created an
> "Immediate" connection to Leah here at home to see if it works.  I was
> surprised that a lot of things were missing, but when I went into my
> (huge!) settings page, I found all sorts of things (like Yes/No voting and
> other things we used in the NESFA meetings so far) that were turned off by
> default. I turned a bunch of them on.
>
> So what I'd like to do is schedule a meeting for the first time with at
> least two other people (three or four would be better) and to walk through
> to test features:
>
>    - Co-hosts (there seems to be no limit)
>    - Host passing -- I can give away the host position, but as owner I
>    can take it bac! k, but there can be only one host with my license.
>    - Breakout rooms
>    - Chat, single, multiple, pictures, videos, etc.
>    - screen sharing -- AND the annotation features that allow you to
>    write and draw over shared images to demonstrate or highlight something
>    - voting, handsup, etc.  -- and the host controls to clear and count
>    them.
>
> We did some of this in the NESFA meeting, but I not only want to stress my
> license (very different from MIT's), but there are some things we couldn't
> do in a large group.  Breakout rooms have some odd characteristics I'd like
> to experiment with.
>
> So, can we do this later tonight sometime?  Tomorrow is a NESFA meeting,
> so if not tonight, maybe Thursday evening?
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