Hey y’all. Tech day. I wore my tech t-shirt from a visit to Facebook headquarters many moons ago. Do you know that they give you free ice cream at Facebook headquarters? Although everybody’s working remotely. I’m not really sure how it’s working. Anyway, today, can I share my iPad screen in zoom. Oftentimes, when I’m working with clients, I share my iPad, I draw things. I use it in a really engaging way that brings people in that mixes up the monotony of Zoom. In this video, I’m going to share really basic ways that you can share your iPad or iPhone over Zoom. And then I’ll also share some advanced strategies and tips to share it in a way that also garners lots of engagement. And if you stick around to the end of the video, I’m going to share a really cool advanced way for those of you who are power users or power presenters and want a clever way to share your iPad without ever hitting the share screen button. Let’s get into it.
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How To Share On Zoom
In order to show you how to share on Zoom, we should get into Zoom. Let’s teleport. Now that we’re in Zoom, all you’re going to do really simply is drop-down to screen share and there are 2 options. You can share via cable or you can share wirelessly via airplay. And it’s up to you. I find that both of them glitch out differently sometimes. They’re not 100% reliable. It’s something you definitely want to test before you do it. But I’m going to right now just go through the process of sharing wirelessly. You’ll see there’s directions here. My wi-fi, the queen’s manor call my dog the queen.
On the iPad
We can jump over to the iPad here. You just need to scroll down from the top right and get this button screen mirroring. And it’ll open up Zoom and then 3, 2… And some… See? This is a perfect example of a glitch. Unable to connect Chad’s MacBook. This is most likely I found because I’m actually recording on my iPad right now. You get the idea that’s where you go down to click and open it up. The alternative is you have your iPad plugged in via USB via cable and you just click this. You click share and it shows right up on the screen. I don’t have my plugged in at the moment so I’m not going to do that.
Those are the 2 easy ways to do that. You can do that with an iPad as well. If you do it wirelessly, you may need to… It may cue you to like download a plug-in or something real quick. It just happens fairly instantaneously. Happens really smoothly. Alright. Let’s imagine you’re screen sharing. I’m going to share 2 strategies on how to use the iPad in a clever way to create more engagement in Zoom. If you’re here with the iPad, I love to use the app notability right here. It looks like this icon with a little pencil. And when you’re in it, it allows you to draw in some really cool ways. At terms sometimes, it turns my chicken scratch into handwriting that doesn’t look all that bad. And what I love doing is sometimes putting in a question. Question to the group and then as the group popcorns out responses on Zoom, I like to jot down keywords of their answers or things that I heard. What happens is I take a conversation which is otherwise invisible and just disappears and make it concrete in a new novel and visual way. And that can be really useful to do. The other way that people really, really like is when I jump into my home screen and you click open the camera….
Whoa, all of a sudden you can share context with people that they otherwise would not have had. Sometimes I will lay out multiple of our We! Engage Cards or a few questions from the..That was a fail. A few questions from the We! Connect Card deck and have people choose a question that they answer. Kind of a cool way to mix people up and show people the behind the scenes of what you’re up to.
If you’ve stuck around to this point, you might be looking for the advanced way to share your iPad without actually screen sharing. And the way that you do this is a little bit of a roundabout using a program called Ecamm Live. Jump over to Ecamm Live, download it. It is a paid service. There may be an unpaid way to do this but if you’re interested in this idea, this may be a core part of your business or work or education that it may be worth paying a bit for. You click it open. And basically, what it… Ecamm is actually created to live stream events. Now, what it allows you to do in Zoom is portal your video right through Zoom. If I jump up to here, if I choose the option here. Right now, I’m using uh that external camera. I can use Ecamm Live virtual cam. And when I click that, on the surface, looks the exact same but I just gained the ability to do some very cool things.I’ve got my iPad plugged into my computer. And if I just hit a hotkey in Ecamm, all of a sudden my screen gets split. And so what I was showing you earlier starts to show up on the screen. In Zoom, this actually shows like this. Your little box splits into the screen. Not only that, but you can actually funnel in pre-recorded videos.
Which is pretty cool. The idea here is using Ecamm as a virtual cam, it takes a little bit of… There’s a little bit of a learning curve but when you set it up on the end, you can basically set up split screen so that Ecamm says to Zoom, “Hey, your camera is actually half of Chad’s face and half of Chad’s iPad.” And you can mix it around actually. You could put your face in a little circle and have the iPad be bigger. Just an advanced way. If you want to mess around with Ecamm, really cool tool to be able to play with. I’d say I use it on about 5 to 10 percent of the virtual workshops and remote presentations that I give because it does add a layer of digital distraction. If tech is not your thing, I would recommend just deleting Ecamm out of your brain and letting it go. This video was fun to record because it’s a little window into the behind the scenes of what I get to do when I’m facilitating workshops and conferences remotely for some of the top organizations and universities in the world.
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