2/3/21
Please update your Zoom to the current version. Karen offered this link with both text instructions and a video available from headquarters. After you have made the update happen, checkout this website for questions about using Zoom in all your RS seminars.
In this Google Doc, find a brief example of the Zoom Transcript feature ... is a demonstration of how this blog tries to show you a hyperlink. There is a color, bold text compared to other words on the page. (On many websites a hyperlink is also underlined.) Tap on a hyperlink to open the website. Touch and Hold on a hyperlink to see a preview and menu of choices about the website.
Tom Holt opened the meeting today emphasizing we will be using iOS 14 - the current operating system version for iPhones. He also noted that in late 2021, iOS 15 will be available and older iPhones will not be able to update. That means no additional protection from updated security features. Read this 9 to 5 Mac article about compatible devices for iOS 15.
Goal: Learn things to help you take advantage of your iPhone. (Share what you learn with friends and family to reinforce your learning.)
- Week 1 - iPhone Basics, knowing your iPhone
- Week 2 - Beyond Basics - the new IOS 14 home screen, Widgets, App Library
- Week 3 - Productivity Apps - Contacts, Phone, Messaging, Maps
- Week 4 - More Productivity Apps, Notes, Reminders, Email
- Week 5 - Using the Camera - beyond photography (QR) +
- Week 6 - Fun Stuff, plus Circle Back to requested Topics
Format for class will be ...
- 09:30 - 09:55 - Questions - suggestions for answers posted later on website
- 10:00 - 11:30 - Class with practice breaks
- 11:35 - 12:00 - More questions
Our website is where you can find notes from each session. Also past sessions over the last five years. Melissa suggested taking shorthand notes - terminology or brief activity reference - then use the website to read the details and follow the steps. This is a new language, we are building brain power by attending this seminar and working with technology. So relax, observe and jot a word down. If you try to transcribe the actions on screen you will get left behind. Come early to ask questions or stay late to ask questions. Actually, even if you don't have a question, come early/stay late because the topics others ask will fill-in gaps for you or your friends.
Because we use our personal devices for this seminar, no recordings of presentations are made. But there are recordings... check our Video Tutorials page.
Tom's presentation ended with a QR Code - a quick response barcode - to open iOS Basics website on your iOS device. When you see a QR Code, wake up your iPhone, open the Apple Camera app and point it at the boxy graphic, get close (not too close) and watch for a notification to appear at the top of your screen with the option to TAP your finger so Safari will open the webpage (or take another QR action). You are not taking a picture! You are just pointing the camera at the boxy graphic so your hand-held computer can translate the graphic into something real.