Socialising on Zoom

Skills

The following skills are needed by participants and hosts for Socialising on Zoom.

participants

• Spend your Zoom time creatively
• Basic Zoom skills: sign in, rename, mute/unmute, video on/off, gallery/speaker views, leave meeting
• Move between breakout groups & main room

tech host

• Claim host
• Breakout groups (random, manual, self-select)
• Play with virtual backgrounds & filters, Reactions (emoji’s)
• Usual controls: mute all, video off, waiting room, remove from meeting, invite, assign co-host

Suggestions and advice

• All need to be comfortable with basic Zoom skills: sign in, rename, mute/unmute, video on/off, gallery/speaker views, leave meeting
• Play with virtual backgrounds & filters, Reactions (emoji’s)
• Participants self-select breakout groups
• It’s all about what you do…free discussion works for small/ familiar groups. Show off a piano piece. Everyone take turns displaying their favourite mug/ show & tell item. Walk away from the computer then come back (make sure you turn video off/ mute before you go). Make dinner while you’re talking to your friends. Read a poem aloud, or share your poetry. Sneak off into a private breakout room (self-select option enabled). Host to divide the larger group into pairs (randomly assigned breakout rooms).
• If you want to sing, only unmute one voice. Otherwise it doesn’t synch. However, trying (and failing) to synch can be amusing. There are non-Zoom apps that enable you to synch but I don’t know what they are. Look them up!