 Hi, this is Russell Stanoff from teachertrainingvideos.com. I've had loads of people asking me about Zoom and loads of people asking me, Russell, I'm having problems with this, I'm having problems with that, so I've created a introduction to Zoom, but where I try to show you the typical things that go wrong. Now, I've been watching some of the videos on YouTube channels and some of them are excellent. They really do a good job of explaining Zoom, but they don't tell you some of the obvious things that you won't realize unless someone explains it to you. For example, when you open up the chat window and begin to chat, that doesn't mean to say that the chat window is opened on the student screen. They would have to click on chat as well to open up their chat to chat with you. Now, other systems don't work like that. In other words, if you change something, the students also see it, but not Zoom. So that is a problem sometimes. However, there are other things about Zoom that are really good. The screen share function in Zoom is excellent. So what I'm gonna do in these videos is take you through the basics, get you started up, share your link, get the students logged in, get you to understand the basic layout, and then I'm gonna go into detail on some of the important things. That is screen sharing, that is video sharing, that is the way that the layout and the chat works, et cetera, how you can control the audio. There's a couple of really important things. And to do this, I'm actually gonna do a few of the parts with someone else as well on screen so we can actually kind of see a double interaction. This video is taking the ages. I really hope it's gonna help you. If it does, please like it. Please share it with other teachers. I'm sorry that it's a bit long. Please, any questions, leave them in the comments section. And if you really like it, then come and join me on my YouTube channel. Let's get started. Now you will need to create an account in Zoom. Your students don't need an account. You will simply send them a link and they will be able to join your webinar. One thing is, I'm just gonna, if you click over and have a quick look at the pricing just to make it clear from what I understand. And it does seem that occasionally they change these things but currently, if you're working in a one-to-one situation, then you are not limited. You can actually just practice for as long as you like. And I've been practicing with this for hours and hours in the free version to really understand how it works. If you're working with bigger groups of between three and eight students, you are limited to only 45 minutes. But the free plan can be a good way to start because you can at least practice and make sure that you know how to work with Zoom. So that, so I've got an account. So I'm just gonna jump over to my account so we can actually start now to create straight away our first actual Zoom. And to do that, all I need to do, I'm gonna click on my account, is click on schedule a meeting. That's the easiest way to do it. Schedule a meeting and we're gonna create a meeting and get someone in the class quickly. So I'm just gonna write in a quick meeting with Keith. Okay, so as I said, I'm gonna meet up with a friend of mine in a minute and go through a lesson with him so that we've got both the teacher view and the student view. I don't need to put anything else. The only thing I need to do is choose the date, choose the time, so you can do that from here. Decide how long it's gonna be. So for example, whether you're gonna do it for one or two hours, make sure that you've got the right time zone for you and a couple of little tips now to really help you with this. If you come down here, my tip to you is set it. So host, that's the person that's actually setting up. The Zoom is on video, but that the participants aren't. If you've got 10, 15, 20 students in the class and they've all got their webcams on, this is really gonna slow down the quality of the Zoom. So my tip to you is not to do that. You can turn on their videos at a later stage anyway. So I always start with the videos off. Here you want both. I very much doubt if any of your students are gonna telephone in, but that would mean that actually they can use both telephone and computer for the audio. Come down to the bottom here. Couple of other things to keep in mind. This can be useful as well. Mute participants on entry. Why? Well, because if you've got 20 students all coming in and suddenly they are all chatting, then that's gonna create a lot of noise. You really can only have one person talking at a time when you're working with a kind of webinar online classroom. So my tip for you would be to choose that and then to click on save. Now once you've clicked on save, there's a couple of really useful things. First of all, here is the link to the actual webinar and you just simply send that to your students. But one thing that Zoom does that's really helpful is they create this really simple invitation and I can literally copy the top part of that invitation because I know that my friend is gonna connect on a link and just copy that and email it or paste it into a website or wherever you want. People know that they click on that button and they can join your webinar. So I've just sent an invitation to my friend. I've just emailed him that invitation so I know that any minute now he's gonna click and join. So let's start the meeting and to start the meeting we click here. Just click on start meeting. Now Zoom does require a little plugin and so you do need to download the plugin onto your computer. Once you've got it, you should see this button here which is gonna open up Zoom. If you haven't got the plugin, you will need to download it for the first time, download and run the plugin. Once you've got it on your computer, you've got it forever hopefully and therefore you'll just simply be able to start your Zooms by clicking here. So I'm gonna do that and it's gonna bring me into a little window where it's gonna ask me first of all to check my sound. First of all, click on this button and test that your sound is working. So you can do this by just do you hear a ring tone? Okay and the second one you can say yes and then the second one, in fact I'm gonna change that and use this one here. So let's, yeah, it's okay. And then I'm gonna say hello, hello, hello. Hello, hello, hello and yes it's working. So I'm gonna click on yes. So now I'm ready now. Okay and this is the important thing. Once you've said yes to those, you then need to click on this button. Join with computer audio. This will come up on the screen. Join and make sure you click on that because it's that that actually activates both your audio for hearing and for the speaking. So click on that button and you should be started. Okay and hopefully come into the room. Okay, we're on Zoom now and I'm sorry that you've got a ginormous face of me presenting to you. And in fact I can turn that off. So what you can see here, the important thing is when you roll your cursor over you'll see that the controls, the most of the controls are at the bottom. And I'm gonna point out a couple of really important things. First of all, you're gonna wanna open up the chat window. Click on this button and that's gonna open up the chat to the right hand side. Obviously that's gonna be one of the quick ways that you can communicate with your students. So I'm just gonna click on that button now and you can see now it's opened up the chat window here on the right hand side. So you can close that if you click on it again, it's gonna close but open it up and you can say hello and anyone that's joined in your room will be able to see that. So that's the first thing now. The second thing is you have actually got control of your video and just for a minute I'm gonna turn the video off. If I come over here to the right hand side then if I click here you'll notice that I can click on stop video but I can also restart the video at any time. Okay, by clicking here. Now let's go through some of the most important settings. Now another button that people get confused about is this button here. Again, rolling down. Make sure that you click here because it's gonna show you when participants join the room. At the moment it's just me in the room and we'll be talking about that in a minute but in a minute you'll see that other people can join the room and that's where I'll see that they join. Remember you've sent an invitation out and all your students should be able to join the room and as long as you've got that button turned on you will see all of the people as they join and here is where your chat will be, okay? Let's say that you've sent out your invitations but you've forgot to send an invitation to someone and you've already got your room open. Is there any way you can quickly get the link to them? Well actually, yes. If you come up to the here on the left and click here you can actually see the invitation URL and you can even copy that so you can be in the middle of a presentation and quickly jump out, open up your email and send the invitation to someone if you need to. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna log in on another account in another browser. I'm gonna log in to my own Zoom so I'm gonna open up another browser and log in using that link so that then we can start to see what the students see. Okay, so I'm now logged in as a student and I want you to realize something. If you look here, first of all obviously the teacher hasn't turned on the video so we can't see the teacher but also the chat room is not available and this is one of the mistakes that a lot of teachers make and it is one of the problems with Zoom. In other words, if you as a teacher open your chat window that does not mean that the chat window is open to the students. The students would still need to click here to open up the chat window to make sure that the chat window is available to them so they need to do that and the same with the participants window, okay? So now they can see themselves and they can see their teacher. This is a problem with Zoom as I said it's not necessarily my tall of choice because there are certain things about it that I don't like. One of them is that that you haven't got enough control over certain features you might do something as the teacher and think your students can see it and they can't so you need to explain to them that they need to click on both the participants window and the chat window as well to make sure that they can communicate with the students. Now, in this case now we've got both of the windows open they can see themselves, I've called, yeah the student is called Tom and they can see the teacher here and they can also chat by just clicking here at the bottom and say hello everyone and that is sent to everybody in the room. Sorry, I spelled that wrong. Okay, so really, really important points and when I've been doing some training this week I've been doing quite a lot of individual training once I've learned to use this technology that was coming up as a problem. However, there are some really good features in Zoom in terms of teaching and we're gonna focus on those in a minute. Okay, so now we're gonna start to go into the part where we're gonna do some live sessions with teachers so that you can kind of see what both the student can see and what the teacher can do and we're gonna start with me being the participant and my friend Keith being the presenter. We're gonna talk about the audio first because you can't have all your students speaking. You've got to think about what you're gonna do to deal with that problem. You can get the students to raise your hand, their hands and you can turn their audio on and I'm gonna take you through that and highlight how we can deal with it. So when you're working with the audio you'll see the list of your students here and the first thing is you can mute them all. If you haven't muted them before they come into the room you can mute them all here and then you can just roll over a participant and you can either turn on or off their audio. So that way you can say to a student when you want them to speak. So they can either do that in a chat window or they can raise their hand and by doing that they are able then or you're able to say, right, okay, I'm gonna turn on the audio and you can now speak because you can't have all the students speaking at the same time. Let's actually see Keith doing that with me. Turn you on from here or I can turn you off. Right, do you wanna try that? Turn off your audio, yeah. If I wanna turn off your audio I can do that. Right, so that's interesting for me to know this. So now I'm not hearing you but I'm gonna just re-turn you on again. Here we go, there you go, back again. Brilliant, okay. So that's really, really interesting that facility. So let's have a, so we talked a little bit about the things on the left-hand side. Now there's a couple more. Can you turn at the moment, you can see me on the webcam. Do you have the control to get rid of my ugly face? Yeah, okay, yeah. I'm gonna turn you off and then turn you back on again. Hang on a sec, let's have a look. So that will go, right. In terms of the video, what I've got up here is that I can, if you put up your hand, I can put your hand down. Yeah. I can silence you. In terms of the video, under the other menu, I can stop your video, let's have a look. That's it. There you go. Then you're just as a name. So if you're putting funny faces up and turn you off, if you're putting me off. And then let's just see if we can- Can you turn the video back on again? Yeah, I'm just having a look before, there we go. Okay, and then I need to click on that. So that's interesting, Keith. When you stopped me, right, and then I needed to, and then you set me up to start again, I had to click on start video to actually start that process. Yeah, I get it. So that's interesting. Obviously, I'm running the Spanish system. Okay, gonna come to one of the most important things now and that's the ability to screen share. And the way that screen share works, and this is really, if you're a teacher, this is perhaps the most important thing. I'll give you a couple of examples, why? First of all, if you wanna play a video to your students, you can open up the video onto your computer screen, screen share through Zoom, and then you need to click on one button to make sure that the students can also hear it and then you can play the video, you can watch the video and they are also seeing the video. And once you finish, you just stop screen sharing, it comes back to normal. So if you want them perhaps to listen to a video and then to discuss questions, the good thing with the screen share is one of the good things in Zoom, you've got control. So when you pause it, it's paused for them as well. Not all screen sharing tools work like that. Now, when you do screen share, it doesn't just have to be a video, I could screen share, for example, an exercise. So I could open an exercise onto the screen on my computer, screen share it so the students can see it, and then actually I can even mark that exercise, I can underline things on that exercise. So to screen share, I won't obviously play my video while I'm doing this, just to make it absolutely clear. You come down to this button here, click on screen share, and what you need to do is you need to choose which of the windows you wanna screen share. So I'm gonna screen share this tab because I wanna play this video, but make sure that you click on this button here, okay? Because if you click on that button, it will make sure that the audio plays for your students. Then click on the share button, the video will open. You're now sharing the screen and you can click on the video. Somba language, heralding state interventions, unprecedented. When you stop, it stops for them as well. You've got control. This is actually one of the really good features about working with Zoom. And then when you've finished, you click on stop. And now you're back out of screen share. That's the way screen share works, but I wanna just take you through a few more things. Let's talk about some other ways that you can use screen share. Okay, so let's look at another option. This could be with a document. It could be with a picture. Again, I'm just trying to make the point that you can screen share anything. So I'm gonna screen share a PowerPoint slide and I'm gonna click on share and open that onto the screen. The students will be able to see this now, but if I come up to the top here and click over on the note, I can even choose to be able to draw on that screen so I can mark things as I'm talking about them and that can be quite useful, okay? Now a little tip, if you're on this screen, for example, and then you click on here and you wanna move to the next screen, so let's say I move back to this one, you'll notice that the drawing's still on the screen. 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