Victoria Computer Club

Here is a link to today’s slides on scams

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eHcHXt8_xgDKlo6B9kuxgTJP7Ys3bIXO/view?usp=sharing

Zoom Best Practises – March 9, 2021  by Dorothy Cushway

1. Join 15 minutes before, that way the host can let you in from the waiting room. Sometimes if you arrive late, the meetings are locked, and you are out of luck.
2. Make sure you have the meeting ID and Passcode  or the email handy.
3. Make sure you have lighting in front of your face, not behind as you do not want to be in the dark on the screen.
4. If using a virtual background, test before attending  a meeting – some devices cannot handle it.  As well, do not use moving virtual backgrounds, they are very distracting.
5. Check your video and sound when you are joining .
6. Tilt your screen-mounted webcam so you see your face rather than top of head or chin.  Each device is different if you are using a webcam on a PC, Laptop webcam, tablet, or phone.
7. If you have your video on and are eating, texting, leaving your desk, turn your video off.
8. Mute yourself always to stop background noise, phones ringing, dogs barking.  Many times, a host Mutes you – please do not unmute.  Other times all meetings are muted at the beginning, as well as turning off the video.
9. Use chat if you do not have a microphone or there is noise.
10. You do not need a webcam to join a Zoom meeting  – you can just watch and use chat as needed.
11. Turn your cell phone to vibrate.
12. Raise hand in the REACTIONS button on the bottom bar when appropriate.
13. Do not monopolize the meeting on non relevant questions to the topic being discussed.
14. To hide all the people who only have their names without a picture, right click your picture.
15. Make sure you put your full name – and sometimes the city if you are attending a zoom meeting   in the US.  Sometimes add your title if you are an Executive member of a club.

First Install the Zoom app from https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting , or the app store for your device

Three  Ways to Join  Zoom Meetings

1. If you have your own personal Zoom FREE account – sign in to https://zoom.us/signin prior to the meeting, then click JOIN and enter  the meeting ID and passcode  as required
2. or Click on the LINK supplied in an email or on a calendar entry – sometimes this takes you to the BROWSER version of Zoom or tries to install Zoom on your device.

Here is the link to the Windows 10 tips presentation given March 4 2021 by Dorothy and George.

Here are the links to the two videos by Hewie Poplock that we showed,

Part 1: https://youtu.be/VHSTTluqShA

Part 2: https://youtu.be/mX0hnAeVddY

Club membership provides many benefits, including social, technical, and educational.  During the pandemic these benefits continue, transformed by using video conferencing.

Here are the slides of the presentation given Feb 11th 2021

Here are the slides for the browser password managers presented Feb 4th by George and Dorothy

Your Identity Isn’t Safe Even After You’ve Died

Judy Taylour of APCUG fame,  presented Digital Estate Planning   to the Victoria Computer Club on January 7th, 2021.

• How much of your life is virtual?
• Do you know anyone who doesn’t have a computer, a tablet or a smartphone?
• Every email, every payment, every movie, every picture, every file in the cloud is
a digital asset.
• What happens if you die and no one can retrieve them?
• Your estate can get stuck in digital probate.

Read the full presentation notes here

The links to the worksheets were sent out in our Events email to members on January 25th, 11pm

Data Privacy Day Info 1-28-21

Data Privacy Day – January 28, 2021

Sponsored by National Cyber Security Alliance

Information from Data Privacy Day – Stay Safe Online  

Millions of people are unaware of and uninformed about how their personal information is being used, collected, or shared in our digital society.

Data Privacy Day began in the United States and Canada in January 2008 as an extension of the Data Protection Day celebration in Europe. Data Protection Day commemorates the January 28, 1981, signing of Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection. On January 27, 2014, the 113th U.S. Congress adopted S. Res. 337, a non-binding resolution expressing support for the designation of January 28 as “National Data Privacy Day.” Data Privacy Day is observed to inspire dialogue and empower individuals and companies to take action.

Attend the Data Privacy Day 2021: Data Privacy in an Era of Change event – reservations required. Data Privacy Day 2021: Data Privacy in an Era of Change – Stay Safe Online

Every couple of weeks George sends out our Events newsletter to members.  (Search your inbox for “events”, or from:events@victoriaComputerClub.org) But we cannot list all the interesting tech for seniors conferences in the newsletter, so some of them are shown below.

• Tech for Seniors Mondays at 8:30 am  Subscribe to their newsletter to get the topics of the day.
• Learning Chromebooks  Third Thursday every month 11am. Registration required
• APCUG’s Virtual Technology Conference
• Space Javelin, Chas’s podcast
• VMUG  Victoria Mac User’s Group
• VLUG Victoria Linux User Group,
• Victoria Pi Makers.

Here is the link to our Cyber Security slide show used in Oct 8th’s Zoom presentation.  We will cover the second half of this slide show in November with videos

VPN SMASH is another source of security info for seniors