What was interesting about using this platform was needing to have the ability to move between multiple screens whilst talking with students and anticipating the next documents that need to be shared.
It's not difficult to do but it does require focusing and requires multi-tasking skills and remembering to share the screen that the students will see. It's also important to ensure that the videos that have been embedded into the powerpoint is also able to be heard on screen (note to self).
It's a platform that I've been using for the last couple of years and I'd highly recommend it for digital meetings i.e. non-contact where each person's screen (through the device's camera) shows up on your screen. So that it can cater for a two-person zoom or even for an audience of over one hundred using multiple screens.
This really changes the face of teaching in that one doesn't even have to be face to face in the teacher/learner relationship. However, the downside of it is having to sit in one place and trying to focus whilst carefully listen when there are other things happening around you or trying to focus on the lesson when you'd rather be sleeping.
Another advantage of the zoom is that you can be in your PJs and no one would know if you decide not to share your screen or you could even upload an avatar and no one would know what was happening behind the screen.
Suffice to say that it was a very interesting day with many lessons learned by both the student and the teacher...
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