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First Ever Zoom Meeting

Roy

I’ve got to the age of 57 without ever doing a zoom meeting, this week saw my first ever meeting. I don’t think I will be doing another one.

I had to do a three hour speed awareness course online, the person hosting the course spoke to all nine participants privately, I told him I’m autistic and wanted to know if the other people will be able to see me and I them, I struggle with eye contact. Basically I just had to get on with it and there would only be a 10 minute break in the three hours.

The tech side of it took me a while to setup, after the three hours I was exhausted, I suppose it’s my fault for speeding, option B was three points and a £100 fine.
I don’t know how people do online meetings every day, sorry just venting.

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  • I've never done one, I think my pooter has a camera and sound but no microphone, I think I might have uninstalled one of the things I'd need to use zoom. People are amazed that I don't do zoom or anything else like that, the worst one was the group for helping autistic adults that did everything via zoom meeting and after me spending about half an hour telling them on the phone about my problems with tech, she told me that I would have to do some sort of meeting via zoom and was amazed that I didn't have any of the stuff to do it, becaue we're autistic we're all supposed to tech geniuses, it makes me so angry and upset.

    Well done to you Roy for actually managing it, we have a centre in Bangor that does them.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I think my pooter has a camera and sound but no microphone,

    You can check this fairly easily if you want.

    Click in the start menu and start typing the word "device" until you see the Device Manager / Control Panel pop up then click on it.

    Click to the left of Audio Devices and Cameras to show the settings under each. It should look somethign like:

    If you see entries under here then you have such devices installed - if you are interested in getting them working then we can help you do a little troubleshooting.

  • in reply to Iain

    Thanks Iain, but I'm not interested.

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