To display Holiday slides in Zoom, Starting With Slides in Powerpoint

 

Open Powerpoint

In Zoom, click share.

Click on view.

To remove the boxes which say 'click here to add text', put your mouse over the corner circle of the text box. Click on delete.

To change view, click on the x at the top right of the left column. 

 About the Author

Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, fashionista. Please share links to your favourite posts or one or more of the blogs

Books include Wedding Speeches and Toasts (Ward Lock/Cassell)

Quick Quotations (Lulu.com) 

travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

Useful Websites & Resources

https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/

https://www.wiki-calendar.com/

https://comicpoemsbynutter.blogspot.com/2020/12/how-to-write-christmas-card-poem.html

For one hour online individual tutorials or group workshops contact

annalondon8@gmail.com

Next BHA meetings log in to bha.learncool.sg

Jan 6 Wed eve 7 pm Singapore time which is the same as China and several other countries in Asia (GMT winter good time for overseas visitors from Europe as it will be before lunch in London)

Jan 16 Saturday afternoon 2 pm Singapore time (GMT winter good time for Australia as it is before midnight in the late afternoon and evening)

How To Share An Online Meeting

photo in wiki from kremlin.ru

Decide which system you want to use. This might already have been decided by the host if you are joining a meeting. I belong to Singapore Online Toastmasters.



For example:
 (alphabetically)
gotomeeting
zoom

Allow twenty minutes in advance to download, type in your name and password, and read the instructions.Before the start you should check everybody can see the timer.

I prefer gotomeeting to zoom because gotomeeting seemed to offer me a clearer tutorial on what to do if joining a meeting.

However, the gotomeeting user guide also helps you to understand how to operate with other systems too.

For example, the mute and unmute yourself button.

Many people think the mute button is the same as when watching a video and that it mutes incoming sound. It does not. It mutes you and unmutes you.

Your options include:
Joining by phone or computer.
Using phone and computer. For example you might have joined on the phone when walking to your home or office, then you arrive and want to see everybody on the big screen, without logging off from the phone and missing vital parts of the conversation.

I joined on the phone because I received a what'sapp message on my phone and the meeting had already started and it was quicker to click on the link on my phone and join the introduction than to copy out the meeting link number and log in using the computer. When I joined through the computer, I was still online with the phone and did not know how to turn off the phone. Nor did I think it was necessary, until I got noise interference and one of the technical people told me to switch off my phone.

I wanted to leave on my phone to read my whatsapp messages - such as private chats from other people online, sending an evaluation form for a speech they were giving.

The host of the meeting has more options. If the host shares with you, to train you, allow you to handle a section of the meeting, you get to see extra options.

A share button allows you to share slides. you might want to practise doing this with somebody at home.

Useful Websites
https://support.goto.com/meeting/organizer-user-guide
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362623-Changing-settings-in-the-desktop-client-or-mobile-app
https://gsuite.google.com/intl/en_sg/products/meet/

About the author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.

Sharing Documents Across Time Zones When Travelling with Google Docs

Problem
How do you send different thoughts all day long to somebody else in business or family without inundating them with emails?
How do you stop clutter in your own sent email box?

Answer
Use shared google documents. You can keep updating with new thoughts or tasks, or re-edit, or change priorities.

Go to Docs.google.com and create a document. Click on share and add the email of whoever you want to see the document.

Sections could be:
ACTION
Meetings
Phone calls
Order goods
Make list
Send email
Invoice
Pay

DONE
Meetings ; arranged for date. Meeting held on. Postponed. Cancelled.
Phone calls made date and time and person.
Order goods: supplier, price and postage.
Make list.
Send email ; to, copy, subject.
Invoice: from, to, work, amount.
Pay: from, to, for.

They can also edit the document. Both of you can move items from :
Action at the top half of the page to
Done and by whom and date at the bottom of the page.

Story
I find this very useful, especially when I am on a different time zone. I won't wake up the family in the middle of the night with pings on their mobile phone by sending them a message or a what's ap message.

Tips
https://docs.google.com/document/

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.

German Language Learning - easy ways to remember words

Problem
How do you remember German words?

Answer
Look for word links.

German - English
Anteil - share (imagine 'an or one tile' on the wall has just a share of the wall space)
Ereignisse - events (both words start with letter E and the third letter is also letter e ErEignisse - EvEnts, also letter n in EreigNisse and eveNts)
Geschwindigkeit - speed (Get going like the wind)GE sch WIND ig keit
Reperatur - repair (REP starts both words and both have an a in the middle and an r at the end.
Versorgung - supply letters S and U in both words VerSorgUng and Supply
zustandig - responsible (you in the zoo, stand up, be upstanding and be counted)


Angela Lansbury, teacher of English and languages.

Saving and Sharing Your Drawing From iPad to Phone, Laptop and Instagram

If you have created a drawing on an iPad in an Apple store, or on your own iPad, you may want to save it and transfer it to your mobile phone or laptop and then share it. How?

You can transfer it via a bluetooth connection to your phone.

I had joined Instagram on one of my devices, but had to rejoin it for the other device.

I sent my photo to a website but it arrived sideways and with the artist's signature partly missing.

Once the photo was loaded up, I could not change it. I had to delete it. Send it to my laptop. I had it in downloads. I slid it across to iPhoto. I then changed the direction, made it smaller so my signature was visible, and created more contrast.

Because I was in a workshop which was coming to an end, I had to work quickly. If I had had more time I would have achieved a better result, as you could if you spent time.

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