To see us through the Archer-less Saturdays for the foreseeable times of isolation , we will host an Academic Archers Saturday Omnibus for anyone to join.
What: An hour and 15 minutes where we watch vids of past Academic Archers papers and have a jolly old chinwag about them.
Who: anyone can join in, and we welcome those that have presented before to present again this way.
When: Saturdays, 11 am to 12.15 pm (and we can keep the channel open if you want to continue chatting), starting 28th March
How: Zoom
What next: put the date in your diary, await our sign-up info, tell your Archers-listening friends.
About Zoom and how to use it
Zoom is a free online video conferencing tool. It can work from your computer, phone or tablet.
You will need to have a Zoom account to use it. This is free and can be got from https://zoom.us/ or via its app (from whatever app store you use.) Do this in good time before the session starts to save the hassle on Saturday.
Each Zoom session has its own unique link and this will be posted each week for the following Saturday. It will be posted to the Facebook page and to the homepage of academicarchers.net. You don’t have to be logged into Zoom to join a session.
Click on the link and you will be asked if you want to join that meeting – click ‘Join a Meeting’ when prompted. Commonly you will be asked by Zoom is join using your camera and microphone – click yes to both (the camera can be turned off and the audio muted later on if you prefer, but do allow them to begin with.)
On joining the session, you will see a screen of all the people in the session, with a controls bar along the bottom and different screen layouts buttons on the top right.
Once you have joined the Zoom session, you can:
1. turn off the camera if you don’t want people to see you – your name will show in its place. Click the camera icon in the controls bar. You can toggle this on and off as you like.
2. you can turn off the microphone so people can’t hear the noise from where you are. Click the microphone icon the controls bar. You can toggle this on and off as you like.
3. you can chat to all the people in the session or just one – click the ‘chat’ icon in the controls bar and a side panel will open with the chat in it (looks very much like a Facebooks message format.)
4. you can leave the session at any time – click the ‘leave meeting’ button in the bottom right corner. If you want to rejoin, click back on the Zoom link.
Get yourself used to these as we will use them in the Saturday Omnibus sessions. The person leading the session will also share their computer screen with you – this is just a way for you to see what is on their screen and does not interfere with your computer/phone/tablet. Cara and Nicola cannot answer your IT questions and if you have any queries about using Zoom, please look at the video tutorials on its website.
Omnibus etiquette
· If you join at the start of the session, before we begin to look at the vids, say a ‘hello’ and then please mute your microphone. You can wave to others as they join or say hello to them in the chat space.
· If you join when the session is underway, please mute your microphone and say hello with a wave or in the chat space.
· Please keep your microphone on mute at all times, unless you are speaking. Background noise, the sound of typing, even of breathing, is all picked up and amplified around the chat space which is a distraction for all, and particularly hard for the person speaking to concentre though.
· If you have a question to ask or a comment to make, please either post this in the chat space or wave, and Cara and Nicola will come to you. When you come to speak, please unmute your microphone and then mute it again when finished.
· Cara and Nicola will be reading the chat space and will share the comments made.
· At the end of the session, Cara and Nicola will ask if you want to keep chatting, and if so, will keep the session open (though they may leave the session themselves.)