Thursday, April 30, 2020

HPL Follow up on learncool April 30

Thurs 30 April

FAQ -

1 Start with how to login.
Q  Do I need a password?
In zoom, yes. But in some recurring meetings you can enter your email, join with facebook, automatically log in. Often you then need to wait for the host to admit you and a sign will say so.
If you can't log in, maybe you have two zoom windows open, one still open from a previous meeting. Shut them both and log in again.

2 Is my information secure on this site?

3 Does it matter if I am on a phone instead of a laptop?

4 I have logged in but nothing is happening.
This is security, for zoom and everywhere. to prevent strangers joining in, the host has to admit you first and they may be busy advising somebody who is already in the meeting room.

5 How to join the meeting?
A In learncool.sg join by clicking on conference.

6 Q Why is my face hidden?
A You have covered the lens on your laptop.

7 How can I hide my face? (I am eating and then need to reapply my lipstick and comb my hair.)
Now, how can I show my face?

8 I can hear but not see anybody.
Look for a microphone with a oblique line or the word mute, which changes to unmute.

9 I see everybody except myself. Where am I?
It's a large meeting and there are two pages of pictures, otherwise you would all be tiny. Click on the arrows to right and left, or up and down if pictures are in a column, or 1 and 2 or higher numbers for the different pages.

10  See The Speaker
How can I see the speaker, large?
At the top or bottom of the screen is a series of squares representing how many screens are shown. it could be one, two, four or multiple. It might say, all or speaker view. change the view to see everybody or one person, the speaker or host or the speaker at that moment.

11 Timer - See
How to see the timer?
Scroll through the 2 or more pages showing the small screens of people. Look for the person labelled timer. Remind them to show the colour cards. Pin their screen by clicking on three dots top right of the miniature oblong screen. If you are the Toastmaster of the day or contest chair, ask the speaker if they can see the timer before they start speaking.

12 Timer - Be
Help. I am timer. How to show the timer?
Use your mobile phone to time. That's why it is easier to use your laptop or ipad for the conferencing, so you can use your phone to look things up on Google in Wikipedia, or show the timer.

13 Quit
How to leave the meeting? in learncool.sg, click on the red phone, like in whatsapp where  you click on the red phone to end the phone call.

14 Photo Taking
Finally, where can I see the group photo? On Facebook on the BHA page, on Angela's Facebook page, in our WhatsApp group or on Learncool.sg BHA wall.

15 Selfie?
How can take a selfie? Screen shot. Find the PrtSc key on your keyboard. It saves one

Finally, where can I see the group photo? On Facebook on the BHA page, on Angela's Facebook page, in our WhatsApp group or on Learncool.sg BHA wall.
icture of the screen to your clipboard. You must immediately paste it somewhere else of it will be overwritten by the next thing you copy or save.

Update
My plan is to produce a leaflet to show all controls, what to do to mute, unmute, show video and change user name.

And chat.

Useful websites
TI
Facebook BHA

Author
Angela Lansbury, author and trainer.

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

4th Learncool meeting 29 April 2020 14 attended


Braddell Heights Advanced at Learncool.sg , meeting 29 April 2020.

Yudy and I were busy all day updating the meeting programme.  Additions included Norman as timer, Shona as quiz master.

I always have new idea. this time I had identified International Dance day and made the theme movement and the WORKSHOP sell yourself.

I was doing a lot, my HPL project, the opening speech, the table topics and workshop (which I combined as we had done in previous workshops at online meetings, too), and Language Evaluation.

During the day Faith dropped out.

Timing & Rehearsal
We logged in, in advance, 15 minutes early, which was earlier than last time. But it was not enough extra time as we were still kfaffling around at 7.15. I had printed out the program sheet which Yudy had reduced to one page using a toastmasters template he had discovered.

Norman Walford was timer and he is a workaholic and wanted to end the meeting as scheduled so no time for feedback from everyone. Only just got in the photo. We had 14 attending:

1 Angela,
2 Shishir and
3 Yudy,
4 Siva the area S5 director,
5 member Chin Teck who was supposed to do Jokemaster but was working late
6 Speaker Pallavi
7 Shona George
8 Jennifer
9 Mike Ma
10 Eliya
11 Norman Walford, timer
12 Achintha, speaker, President of MSD
13 Lee Chooi Ling
14 Janet

We did not have time for Shona's evaluation.

I asked Shishir to make slides to announce the winners of the vote for best speaker, evaluator and table topics. he created a slide for the winner is, then their name with confetti.

Pallavi had slides.

I did my HPL project.

I said online meetings had long been my dream. I had seen they started in the USA. First we had opposition to online meetings. Then COVid19 forced everybody online.

We could have sent the quiz with answers as a follow up.

Voting was by sending votes in the chat. First everybody had to find the chat.

Follow-up
Yudy phoned me and we tried to eliminate the source of background noise by process of elimination. We checked the sound with a fan, an air conditioning unit, the room door open and the room door closed.

Then my speaking ner the laptop and further away. We lifted the laptop off the work surface, bridged across two books to keep it cool to try to work out whether the desktop echoed the laptop's fan.
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Yudy asked me to try speaking wearing headphones. I had thought that in some contests the speaker had been asked to remove headphones, but maybe they were larger ones with a headpiece arched over your head. The smaller headphone which has two strings of wire hanging from your earpieces, has a microphone which stays in front of your mouth so you can move back from the laptop and turn your head from side to side without losing sound.

You can also make gestures, or turn in two directions, acting out a conversation between two people, without losing sound.

Yudy suggested holding a rehearsal meeting two days in advance. Since, experience has shown, often one or more speakers, as many as half the people, might not be available. we have several additional options.

1 A video demo on the website itself.
2 A downloadable and printing alphabetical list of instructions, so that when somebody says MUTE YOURSELF or UNMUTE YOURSELF, you can look down the list of instructions.
3 You could also include a printable visual guide to what you see on the screen,  like the diagram which comes with a mobile phone or sewing machine.
4 Act like Apple, or the FOR DUMMIES books. Turn the symbols into English. Have the word MUTE below or above or alongside the mute symbol. Or make the symbol larger and put the word mut on it. The words on, off, mute, chat, video, are all short enough to go on a symbol.

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.9-12 pm, Singapore time, Fridays. I am also a member of
Tampines Changkat Advanced.
Harrovians, London.
Toastmasters International Find a Club
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
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
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Thursday, April 23, 2020

3rd Learncool meeting on April 22 Wednesday -


 Div S has bought one zoom account for all clubs under DIV S. If any of the clubs require virtual club meeting, you could book the time slots with Lee Siang.

Saturday Workshop on Humour by Clement Chio

Reminder of the four Speechcraft sessions for April:

At the second meeting I learned from Yudy how to create a meeting agenda within the system. That is really handy. Unfortunately if somebody drops out you cannot adjust the order. You can only change the names.

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Club at 7 pm Wed 22 April Speechcraft on learncool.sg We have a speech slot and evaluation slot for you.

The third meeting was a great success.
Yudy said we had more people and more of them stayed to the end of the meeting.

The idea is that having started the Speechcraft slots and practised them, we have the skills and confidence to create a poster and advertise to people outside Toastmasters to get more paying members.

 Thank you for attending last night and a great table topic. Faith, you were a star. 😀👏💖
 The person in charge of recordings was not me but Yudy. He eventually told me recordings are not on facebook just on our club wall on Learncool for people who we allow to join to share.

 However in the post meeting chat Eliya admitted that he is in the contest on Saturday and he thought Faith left the April 22 meeting because he was there - so Faith made the right decision.

 I want to send out within 48 hours of the 22 April meeting a draft of the agenda for the last April Workshop on April 29. Adding a workshop every Wednesday is a lot of work.

I did a workshop and topics only at the first meeting but got feedback that people would rather have a full meeting with speeches and evaluations.

Siva was very complimentary and said he would recommend our club. I am sure seeing animated Faith in topics as well as her contest wins is part of that.

I imagine Faith is too busy rehearsing for the contest to do the Wed 29 draft agenda which I went to send out to encourage people to sign up.

If you have a moment, Faith or anybody, send me a template. I shall send out emails and agenda with a newsletter typed in emails. I am tired of one finger typing on the phone!

A fun moment. One of many. 

Bring a joke about speaking or anything else, a funny story up to one minute, a funny hat, cartoon, or puppet, or cartoon to share to our next meeting. Our fourth Speechcraft is on how to sell yourself, your service, your product or your club.
Next meeting 29 April Wednesday. 7 to 9 pm."

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.9-12 pm, Singapore time, Fridays. I am also a member of
Tampines Changkat Advanced.
Harrovians, London.
Toastmasters International Find a Club
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
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
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Saturday, April 18, 2020

HPL project on Learn Cool

The project is to get Speechcraft meetings online for BHA. matching the weekly events by Singapore online.

Members of committee:
Angela Lansbury
Shishir
Yudy
Trevor Sharot
Faith
Chin Teck

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.9-12 pm, Singapore time, Fridays. I am also a member of
Tampines Changkat Advanced.
Harrovians, London.
Toastmasters International Find a Club
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
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
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HPL project on newsletter

I wrote my meetings up on these blogs as a way to record ehe draft, not on scraps of paper. I intend to then compile them into a newsletter. illustrated. As an HPL project it needs to be grouped with a comittee plan and speech at the end.

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.9-12 pm, Singapore time, Fridays. I am also a member of
Tampines Changkat Advanced.
Harrovians, London.
Toastmasters International Find a Club
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
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
Please share links to your favourite posts.

Speechcraft by Clement Chio

In the morning of Sat 18 I heard what sounded like several funeral speeches - from what was supposed to be contest of humorous speeches.

That afternoon for Braddell Heights Advanced I was host and learned how to bring people in from the waitng room, new things devised by Zoom as an added security measure. We had a modest  people.
Same as our in person meetings. No loss, no gain. I hope eventually we will gain as more people get comfortable with online meetings.

My VPE faith was unable to attend.

I had sound problems.

I did the table topics.

Clement had lots of slides. I had seen them before but they struck me afresh as he said, a recap.

Table topics, nobody came up with funny stories.

Members obviously needed his talk and need to hear it again.


My speech on writing your family hisory on Agor

great evlaution by rhihanna very encouraging

Add call to action, earlier

Second Learncool Meeting

Helped by Yudy and shishir

First LearnCool Meeting

Helped by Yudy and Shishir.

Useful Websites
learncool.sg