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If this doesn’t work make sure the built-in microphone is the one selected by the computer. I’m pretty sure you only have the one built-in mike but, just in case, on a Mac go to ’System Preferences’, Sound and you will see the microphones there for input and output. Make sure your internal mikes are selected. I don’t know what you do on a PC but maybe someone else could help? You can buy an external microphone but you don’t need one unless you’re making a recording and want something better than the built-in microphone. Then you do need to make sure the mike you’re using is selected by the computer.
As to the camera, I would guess that the camera is built-in to the top of your computer. You’ve certainly got one on a smart phone or an iPad and most reasonably modern laptops will have one. If you can’t find one anywhere then you can buy one from Amazon for about £23/£24 - some have a microphone built-in too!
BTW I did wonder if anyone would like to set up a Zoom meeting for us. Anyone can host it for free and get 40 mins free but I can 'Host it through the yooney (Uni) and get any number of people for as long as you like. You would all need to download the Zoom App which is free and very easy to use. The advantage over Skype is that you get a screen with everyone’s faces on it so that we can easily see each other. Many of us are using it for church stuff. It’s so good we’ll never go back to the old 'get out the car and find some parking and people don’t like going out at night' etc!
BTW2 The ‘Movie’ of Julian of Norwich which I made for a church service is in four Dropboxes only!!! Only five of us have it. Dropbox is also free - if I can find your address I can send stuff to you which is too memory-big. But thanks to everyone for all the fabulous stuff about Norfolk and other anchoress/anchorite/anchorhold sites. When all this is over I’m going there to find everything! I once found Great Snoring Workhouse (now demolished) on the way back from a QEGGS lunch. It was very important in the history of education - but that’s another story. I crawled around under 60 years of undergrowth to find all the bits and pieces.
BTW3 One day I’ll explain the Glasgow tenement system. I bought one 41 years ago on two floors so that I could home my penniless, retiring, homeless parents! Now that they’ve gone I have some unused rooms downstairs! Hence the ‘party’ room! My student 'waif and stray' is currently sitting his exams downstairs! We live in unprecedented times.
From Janet at 12.57
Thank you - that's really helpful. The next possible meeting I could join is coffee after church on Sunday so I will give it a go then!
My great aunt lived in an original tenement flat in Glasgow and we had a really interesting tour of the NTS one a few years back.
They really are very spacious - probably bigger than some houses these days!. Years ago we stayed with my French penfriend (from school) in Lyon and her parents had pretty much the same set up in an ancient block of flats in the centre of the city - though their communal loo on the landing was a hole in the floor!
Thursday, 30th April
From Judy at 10.06
Dear All, Yes, there is still an Orthodox presence at Walsingham, alongside the Anglican and Roman Catholic ones. I know because I have driven through there and also, a friend of mine
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