[Men] Men's Group Meeting Tonight

[Ted Goertzel]

It does have a 'raise your hand" feature according to Mike Bailey, although
I didn't see it.  I don't think the host can use it, you have to open the
"participats" menu and click on it.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:08 AM Al Tuttle via men <men at fuusm.org> wrote:

> When using zoom, I find it helpful to have the zoom chat window open.
> For those not having good audio connection, it provides a way to provide
> input.   You can also provide photos, website links, etc.   Or as kids did
> in school, you can pass notes to individuals vs. the whole group.   Also
> mute your computer or phone (when enabled) until you want to speak.
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> Does anyone know if ZOOM has a “raise your hand to speak” feature?    With
> ZOOM, you don’t have the visual clues of a live meeting, so you end up
> stomping on each other.  Then too there is often a slight time between the
> group hearing the speaker and when the speaker actually began to talk.
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> Al T.
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> *From:* men <men-bounces at fuusm.org> *On Behalf Of *Ted Goertzel via men
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 19, 2020 9:14 AM
> *To:* Men at Fuusm <men at fuusm.org>
> *Cc:* Ted Goertzel <tedgoertzel at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* [Men] Men's Group Meeting Tonight
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> The men's group will be meeting tonight (Thursday March 19) at 7 in a Zoom
> Room.  The address is:
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> https://us04web.zoom.us/j/714582280
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> We've had some  experience with this, which I am learning along with
> everyone else.  Here are some things I've picked up:
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> You can use an iPhone or probably an android phone instead of a computer.
> Mike Lang had computer problems last night, but he connected later using
> his iphone.
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> If you use a laptop, the microphone has to be working.  You can do
> voice-only without video, but it is better if you can also turn on the
> video.  It's more like a real men's group meeting if we can see each other.
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> It's a good idea to mute your microphone when you're not speaking.  If
> there's a lot of people, I'll take the responsibility as host to call on
> people.  We'll have our usual check-in, sharing what's happening in our
> lives.
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> It seems to work well with the Chrome browser, with other browsers it may
> be necessary to install the Zoom software.  If so, it will prompt you to do
> so.
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> Installing the software on your laptop seems a good idea anyway.  It is
> easy to go to Zoom.com in advance of the meeting (click the button on the
> upper right where it says "jon now it's free").  Once you learn this you
> may use it for other things including church services on Sunday.
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> If we find this helpful, we can do it more often than once a month.  It
> looks like we'll be having a lot of free time.  Maybe we would like a once
> a week check-in where we share pointers for dealing with life in a
> pandemic?  It's an idea we can discuss tonight.  Maybe this should be for
> men and women, not just for men?
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