Thursday, May 28, 2020

Webex - what is it? Another online meeting system?



Yes, Webex is another online meeting system. i was invited to join a Webex meeting today. I am used to Zoom and learncool. I did not have to download anything, just sign in on my little lap top lnked to a larger screen.

Luckily my husband was able to help with Webex. He said he used it at work twenty or thirty years ago. It predated Zoom which has zoomed up.

Mute
It is amazing how much I have learned in the three months March to May from online meetings. I was immediately looking for the mute icon. I could signal to everybody, shrug - I'm lost

Chat
The word chat is confusing. Usually you mean the Webbex Chat or the Learncool Chat or the Zoom chat but you could mean the WhatsApp Chat.

Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_conferencing_software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hangouts

Facebook polyglots
https://www.facebook.com/groups/polygotcommunity/
translate google

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a trave writer and phtographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.

Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a langauge evaluator or grammarian.  We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.

I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other wednesdays are workshops on app learncool.sg
Or quicker, tinyurl.com/BHACOOL

Time Zones
In Singapore we are on the same time zone as Malaysia, Hong Kong, and China (Beijing and Shanghai).
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