Zoom Master (HA!)

I have been shut up in my "office"

Ok, Jim's bedroom...

for the past YEAR.

Ok, 2 days.

Or is it 3???

Anyhow.

I hosted my first live webinar on

Friday morning and actually had 19

students show up for class!

Not bad for 4 hours of insurance stuff...

Then last night I co-hosted Lawrence's webinar.

Good thing I was there, his screen froze and I

had to take over for a couple of minutes...

And then this morning I popped into our

Spanish instructor's class just to observe

and she was doing it DIFFERENT!

She had her iPad hooked up along with her

laptop, so she could show the presentation on

her iPad (which is WAY easier to write on...)

and had her Q&A and Chat windows open on

her laptop so she could teach AND answer 

questions at the same time!

Brilliant!!!

(Plus the iPad has a better White Board than

Zoom does - and I already have saved stuff

that I can use...)

As soon as I saw that, I jumped on with my other

instructor / friend Lillian, and we set up a practice

webinar and tried it out!

WE LOVE IT!

(Rod had to come close my door because we were

squealing... lol)

So.....

Tonight at 6:00 I'll be hosting my 2nd Zoom webinar.

and I'm going to try it the way she did it.

(Fingers Crossed!!!)

This is NOT me, obviously.

This is Lawrence, and what I was looking

at on my screen last night.

Well, I was also an "attendee" on my phone so I

could raise my hand when he asked questions

(he only had 4 students and only 1 was participating)

All those other names on the participant screen

are other instructors - most logged in and wandered off...

I was also following along on MY presentation

on my iPad.

So I had 3 different devices open.

Plus Lillian kept texting me (she was watching too)

and then my boss Dan popped in and started texting

me, so I was trying to flip back and forth between

texting and raising my hand ... sometimes I wasn't

fast enough and he got a bit discouraged that there

wasn't more participation.

But I tried!

(grin)

I slept WELL last night!

I had a large morning class, but honestly am not

expecting a huge class this evening.

People have better things to do on a Saturday evening. 

Probably. 

Maybe. 

Anyhow.

That (hopefully) explains the radio silence.

I'm not teaching again until Wed evening...

so I promise to check back in on Monday.

Or even Sunday.

We'll see...

Caught the last 20 minutes of the morning session.

It was good!