It’s a brave new world during these days of quarantine, and for the technology-challenged among us, it can be daunting to keep up. If you’re willing to learn a few basics, there’s a world of free and low-cost workshops on the cyberweb that can help you exercise your brain and give you new skills.
Zoom is just one of the many video conferencing platforms that are free to use (whither WebEx?), but it’s quickly become a go-to for a lot of personal and professional meetings. As with almost every piece of machinery or software ever created, most people’s problems with and questions about using Zoom would be answered if they just read the support documents, which include how-to-get-started tutorials. What does this button do? How do I see all the people on this conference? Read the support documents! Zoom actually rewrote theirs in the last month to make an even easier “this is how we do this” explainer for all their new users. I also like to point people to Owl Labs’s website. They’re a Massachusetts-based company that makes remote-meeting hardware, and in March they created a great one-sheet how-to on Zoom for their blog.
