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
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