meet.google - my favourite online meeting platform - for today

I just came out of a google meeting and I loved it. Why? Because I had subtitles under speakers.

That was brilliant. If you lost concentration, went out of the room, or did not catch what they said, it was brilliant.

The occasional mis-spellings provided extra unintended entertainment. For example, in a Toastmaster's meeting training speakers we sometimes have an ah counter who counts ers and ums and repeated words.

Once the word nose appeared. It took only a second to realize the speaker was saying the plural of no.

To Pin A Speaker, Or Yourself
Also it is easy to pin the speaker or timer.

Click on a large drawing of a pin.

The usual tricks apply. If you want to video wit your phone and don't want your camera to appear, you can cover your laptop lens. I do the same if I walk out of the room, or get up to fetch a pen or glass of water or bring back my mobile phone which I moved away to stop an echo.

I have tried turning off my mobile phone, but then it is not ready when I want to take a screen shot. In theory you can take a screen shot. However, if you take a second one, the first one disappears.

I have other posts on the advantages of zoom and webex and learn.cool

Useful websites
meet.google
webex
learncool.sg

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 

Incoming president Faith from July 1st 2020 could change dates and platforms so please contact the club.

learncool.sg

Or quicker to type and easier to remember: 

 tinyurl.com/BHACOOL

Useful Websites

https://www.facebook.com/groups/polygotcommunity/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_place_names

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_Australian_place_names

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_New_Zealand_place_names

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html

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https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
translate.google.com
duolingo.com

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 

learncool.sg

Or quicker to type and easier to remember: 

 tinyurl.com/BHACOOL

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_self-study_programs

https://www.facebook.com/angela.lansbury.121

https://www.facebook.com/groups/polygotcommunity

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html Please share links to your favourite posts

https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club

translate.google.com

duolingo.com

Alternative Online Meeting Tools - Webex tutorial

I am used to zoom.

I love learncool.sg






Today for the second time I used Webex.

I could see half a dozen people across the top of the screen, but the list of participants suggested there were several more.

It took me a while to work out how to see the speaker large instead of as one of a set of postage stamps. I wish they would put up a message, to see speaker click here, with an arrow.

I then looked around their base or home page. I wish they would tell you if you already have an account.

You should be able to type in your email and be told, you have an account already, click here, or, you don't have an account, sign up here.

I could see contact us. But no FAQ.
After a lot of clicking and reading I eventually found the magic instructions page.

Unfortunately, although they have highlighted and enlarged the secion featured, it is still too small to read, even on my giant screen.

Still, I am making progress. At least I know the questions to ask.

Wiki has a technology portal.

Useful Websites
https://help.webex.com/en-us/8bzter/Cisco-Webex-Meetings-Video-Tutorials
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Webex

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 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 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 learncool.sg The third Saturday is on zoom, unless the system we use is busy in which case we revert to our backup on Learncool.

Or quicker to type and easier to remember:  tinyurl.com/BHACOOL

Useful Websites

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
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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/
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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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Zoom, delays in singing and speaking, alternatives?

During Covid-19 some people are using zoom and video conferencing at work. Even when you are in an office, you need to sit apart.

I and many toastmasters are using the same systems for educational meetings. We are giving public speeches, and sharing slide presentations.

A friend of mine from toastmasters on Facebook raised the question of time-lag, in speaking and singing. I replied:

A scattered choir managed to sing in unison.

In speech contests, some contestants sing to be memorable and demonstrate another skill.

For most of us online, the problem is not singing with a delay but speaking with a delay. People speak to me and we are cross-talking because they are asking, can you hear me, and my reply, 'yes', is delayed. The culprit cannot be other person's connection, because I wave my hand and see my own hand wave on my screen several seconds later - unless my computer is sending the signal elsewhere and back to me.me

Useful websites (alphabetically)
learncool.sg
voov
webex
zoom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotelephony
https://www.voicesofsingapore.com/virtualchoir

 Toastmasters International Find a Club
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Public_speaking
https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=upSEBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=quick+quotations
lulu.com/shop/angela-lansbury/who-said-what-when/paperback/product-21713991
learncool.sg

Author
Author, Author! About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. (Not related to the actress.)
 Author of twenty books including: Quick Quotations; Who Said What When.

 See books and profiles on Lulu.com and Amazon, such as Wedding Speeches & Toasts. Also watch videos on YouTube.
See other posts on singers and statues and languages and destinations.

If you want to learn to speak the Queen's English, or Received Pronunciation. join me at my online toastmasters club, Braddell Heights Advanced. Wednesdays, 7-9 Singapore time which is seven hours ahead of London, England. I am also a member of Singapore Online.

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