On Easter Sunday at 9 a.m. we are going to have a virtual get-together to chat over breakfast. So folk are encouraged to make their bacon rolls or get their hot cross buns ready, make their tea or coffee and sit down in front of their computer at 9 a.m.and enjoy a leisurely breakfast while chatting to others over Zoom for half an hour. See below for Heather's version of how to join in, and at the foot of the page is the ID and Password that will be required.
After breakfast, our congregation and visitors are encouraged to go to the video on YouTube, Facebook or our website to join Keith in Easter worship.
There will also be a video available for worship on Good Friday.
Zoom is a conferencing software application and we use the free version. You download the app.
To use it, you can sign up, which means you can then host your own conference, now or in the future, or you can skip that if you want to. To join a meeting that someone else is hosting, you need them to give you the ID number and password then you choose to join a meeting and sign in.
The host and attendee both have control over the video and the sound. The host can choose to mute you and switch off your video picture. That is the ultimate control. However, you can choose to have yourself muted and your picture off, even if the host has both on for you. Normally you would want to have both on. One time, for example, someone left a meeting to answer their phone and the host muted them so that the meeting could not eavesdrop on their call, but this would be an occasion when the attendee would ideally choose to mute themselves.
You can choose how to display everyone independent of how everyone else has set up their display, and this can be changed at any time. You can have gallery view which shows everyone in their own square and all squares together fill up the screen. You would still have a square even if your video is off and this lets the others know that you are still in attendance but in this instance your square would be blank. Potentially you can still see and hear everyone else.
While someone speaks, their square is highlighted by a green border. If you choose speaker view, the one person who is speaking fills up the entire screen and this alternates depending on who is speaking. But small squares of everyone are displayed across the top of the screen.
A personal preference is to use a laptop for meetings and I think this gives a better and steadier picture. My husband uses his phone, but because he holds it, it can be all over the place and a bit off putting. However, he can let people see things around the house more easily or turn his camera on the dog!
If the host was to use Zoom for training purposes, for example doing a webinar, she would likely choose to mute everyone and turn off their cameras. No one would then be able to see or hear anyone else but her.
I hope that explains it.
Below are details for the Easter Sunday breakfast gathering, but you won't be able to join in yet until the host starts the meeting. Best you sign up just now and experiment and when the meeting begins, you are ready to go back to the app and join in.
Meeting ID: 646 616 3642
Password: Breakfast
After breakfast, our congregation and visitors are encouraged to go to the video on YouTube, Facebook or our website to join Keith in Easter worship.
There will also be a video available for worship on Good Friday.
Zoom is a conferencing software application and we use the free version. You download the app.
To use it, you can sign up, which means you can then host your own conference, now or in the future, or you can skip that if you want to. To join a meeting that someone else is hosting, you need them to give you the ID number and password then you choose to join a meeting and sign in.
The host and attendee both have control over the video and the sound. The host can choose to mute you and switch off your video picture. That is the ultimate control. However, you can choose to have yourself muted and your picture off, even if the host has both on for you. Normally you would want to have both on. One time, for example, someone left a meeting to answer their phone and the host muted them so that the meeting could not eavesdrop on their call, but this would be an occasion when the attendee would ideally choose to mute themselves.
You can choose how to display everyone independent of how everyone else has set up their display, and this can be changed at any time. You can have gallery view which shows everyone in their own square and all squares together fill up the screen. You would still have a square even if your video is off and this lets the others know that you are still in attendance but in this instance your square would be blank. Potentially you can still see and hear everyone else.
While someone speaks, their square is highlighted by a green border. If you choose speaker view, the one person who is speaking fills up the entire screen and this alternates depending on who is speaking. But small squares of everyone are displayed across the top of the screen.
A personal preference is to use a laptop for meetings and I think this gives a better and steadier picture. My husband uses his phone, but because he holds it, it can be all over the place and a bit off putting. However, he can let people see things around the house more easily or turn his camera on the dog!
If the host was to use Zoom for training purposes, for example doing a webinar, she would likely choose to mute everyone and turn off their cameras. No one would then be able to see or hear anyone else but her.
I hope that explains it.
Below are details for the Easter Sunday breakfast gathering, but you won't be able to join in yet until the host starts the meeting. Best you sign up just now and experiment and when the meeting begins, you are ready to go back to the app and join in.
Meeting ID: 646 616 3642
Password: Breakfast