Webex and Zoom

On a Webex meeting of Toastmasters International one of the speakers gave a ten minute presentation about how to use Webex. The main points I picked up from the speaker were:

HOSTS
1 Always have two 'hosts'.

LEAVING VERSUS ENDING
2 If you leave a meeting early, click on leave meeting. That means you leave the meeting. Don't move your mouse over end meeting and click because that ends the meeting for everybody. I'm sure a few people have done that.

Why don't the signs clarify more detail about ending, like the delete buttons on WhatsApp. They offer specific choices. They say 'delete for me' or 'delete for everybody'.

The online functions could offer a similar choice. For example: 'Leave meeting for me.' or 'End meeting for everybody'.

DRAWING ON WHITEBOARDS
In a real in office meeting you can use a whiteboard to brain storm and list suggestions or mind map then linking them with arrows or circles. Different people can draw on the communal whiteboard. Does an online meeting offer such a possibility?

The speaker demonstrated this using notes on a white background, share screen, and the paintbrush.

CHECK UPDATES
I might have got something wrong. The speaker could have got something wrong. By the time you read this sthe system could have changed. (So check online.) But these notes gives you a clue what to watch out for.

Website
https://meetingsapac24.webex.com/webappng/sites/meetingsapac24/dashboard/landing?siteurl=meetingsapac24&type=Attendee

About the author
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 travel writer and photographer 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 language evaluator or grammarian.  We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language 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 

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Learning to Blog on Blogger

I have been on this blogging site for years but only recenty discovered how to make my website names turn into links. It's so simple. You click on the website name in your text and highlight it. Then click on the word link in the middle of the symbols across the top of your text screen.

Why did I never learn that before? I said to myself what I would say if I were teaching somebody else:

Don't be afraid. Just click on each symbol left to right and see what comes up. Yes, you may forget at first. But do it every day for a week and you'll soon get familiar with each symbol and what it can do for you.

I started following my own advice, clicking on the symbols. I thought I knew almost all of them although I regularly use only a few. I think you will be as amazed as I was at what I found. The big surprise was the little face symbol. I'll come to that later. I'll take each symbol in logical order.

Left arrow. That's undo. Really handy. Right arrow is redo (or restore).

F is font.
Click on the downwards arrow.
Default fonts are: Arial courier georgia Helvetica Times Trebuschet and Verdana.

T is text (size)
Smallest, small, normal, large and largest.

 If you have copied a piece of text from elsewhere, such as Wikipedia, and inserted it, you might find you now have two pieces of texts in different sizes. You can increase the size of the small text to make it more readable. Or reduced the size of a footnote.

B is for bold.
I is for Italic.
U underscored is underline.

ABC struck through - why would you need this? I suppose a teacher could show a pupil a delted word which was wrongl spelled, or correcting a proof but leaving the original visible but not part of your text.

The Large A underscored is text colour.

If you copy a text from elsewhere and it appears in green or blue you can change it back to black.

The paintbrush is for text background colour. Probably most useful when you make a text box like a poster with a word against a background, or to highlight parts of your text.

If you have a drama script for an amateur dramatics play or skit, you might highlight with a background yellow colour the parts which you speak. Highlight in green background the last sentence or last two words which are the cue from the other character that you should be ready to speak.

Link turns the website name into another colour when you hover over it. When you click on it you, the reader, automatically get connected to the website.

The movie clipboard symbolises video if you want to insert video.

Smiley face. What did I think it was? Maybe a smiley face?

Yes, indeed, if you want to insert smiley faces and emoticaons.

Also a host of other symbols including:
the Euro symbol of a £ or $ sign,
an umbrella, a bicycle for a map.
Mahjong and domino pieces.
See Hebrew and Arabic and Aramaic.
Chinese. Cuneform.

Drawing Caricatures with an iPad: how? I learned: battery charging+drawing

Drawing caricatures with an iPad. I've tried it several times.

Battery Charging
The first thing you do is make sure your iPad battery is charged. You can link an iPad to a plugged in laptop but the iPad charges faster on a link to an electrical socket. If you see the almost empty battery the iPad is charging. (If you see the cable picture it is telling you that you need to connect a cable.)

It can take a while to get back to 100 per cent charged but you can start using the iPad whilst it is plugged in and charging. After two hours the iPad was 50 per cent charged.

Pencil Charging
If your pencil needs charging, you remove the cap and plug it into your iPad.

Drawing
You can choose the fineness of the line you want to draw by tapping on the picture of a fine line pencil or a broad paintbrush or something in between. Tap on black dot from the tiny palette.

Then tap on the circle of colour above the colour dots. Spin the circle clockwise to change the shade.

You can also lay the tip of your electronic pencil on it side - at a diagonal. Drag it along to create a wide shaded grey, like a watercolour wash.

I used it for fill in for face colour, and hair. The fine pencil was better for the edges of the lips, both the darker colour of the lips' outline and the skin edging the lips.


Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, caricaturist, illustrator, author and speaker.