Dorchester — Jan 11th 2022

Before giving a talk on the basics of using Zoom and how to receive help one to one by sharing your screen, Mick chaired a discussion on the balance between physical and online meetings. The overwhelming view in the case of Dorchester was to stay with the monthly physical meetings. In areas where support is insufficient to warrant hiring a hall and organising a meeting then some online meeting is the best substitute. Mick explained the possibility of sharing a monthly online meeting with two other groups similar to AugWessex, hosting in turn. Whilst the gathering’s instance was the wish to keep meeting physically, it was agreed that whilst COVID has to be lived with and some members not wanting to drive any distance in the dark or needing to be at home, some online meetings would be beneficial.

So, we need to make sure that as many members as possible feel confident to use Zoom. To this end Mick produced simple guide lines with the recommendation that one should down load the Zoom app for the Mac from Zoom.us and from the App Store for IOS devices. Although you can use Zoom without registering, Mick recommended that you do; it is free, charges only come into play if you wish to host meetings with more than one person for more than 40 minutes.

As we are looking at more online activity one of the important benefits of being a member of AugWessex is getting support and Mick explained how this can be achieved remotely using screen sharing. The Mac has built in screen sharing and during an initial telephone call the helper will send a message which will come up on the Mac. Once accepted the phone call can be ended and the conversation continued via Macs. Clearly one should never accept a request to share screen, even from a known person, without anticipating it.

Mick also recommended Team Viewer for both the Mac and IOS. In the case of IOS here are two apps on the App Store one for the recipient of help, TeamViewer QuickSupport and one for the helper, assuming they are using and IOS device rather than their Mac, TeamViewer Remote Control. Despite some shortcoming with the local internet Mick was able to demonstrate sharing his iPhone screen on his Mac

Although Mick’s talk was aimed at recipients of help, there was much interest in how to be the helper. Whilst this was discussed briefly, we will cover the topic in more detail next month.

After the break, David showed how he added sound to a Keynote presentation, exported it to a movie and burned to a DVD. In Keynote you can have a soundtrack that continues from slide to slide and also sound specific to each slide such as a commentary. David included both but when exporting to Movie the continuous soundtrack was separated from the slides and played in full before the slides started. The sound specific to each slide exported successfully. Maybe someone would like to demonstrate doing a similar exercise using iMovie!

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