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Meeting Owl 1 hardware.MOVMeeting OWl Initial Setup
Meeting OWl Initial Setup
Plug in Meeting Owl power to outlet
Plug in USB cable to Meeting Owl and laptop
If needed, use USB extension
Meeting Owl 2 initial setup.movGoogle Meet Initial Setup
Google Meet Initial Setup
with Meeting Owl
with Meeting Owl
Ensure Meeting Owl powered and connected via USB
Open Google Meet
Select Owl as Camera!
If built-in camera is still showing, click More Options (three dots in bottom right corner, looks like a snowman), and set Video, Microphone, and Speaker to Meeting Owl.
Meeting Owl configuration 1.movConfiguration 1
Configuration 1
Goal- remote learners can see only teacher
Set up:
Connect laptop via HDMI if using a TV
Start Google Meet
Use built-in camera
Meeting Owl configuration 2.movConfiguration 2
Configuration 2
Goal- remote learners can see everyone
Set up:
Connect laptop via HDMI if using a TV
Plug in Meeting Owl to laptop (usb) and power
Start Google Meet
Select Owl as camera: Options (three dots, looks like Snowman) > Settings > Video > Change from FaceTime Camera to Meeting Owl
Meeting Owl configuration 3.movConfiguration 3
Configuration 3
Goal- remote learners can see everyone AND teacher slides
Set up:
Connect laptop via HDMI if using a TV
Plug in Meeting Owl to laptop (usb) and power
Start Google Meet
Select Owl as camera: Options (three dots, looks like Snowman) > Settings > Video > Change from FaceTime Camera to Meeting Owl
In Meet, click Present Now > Your Entire Screen > Single click on preview of Screen > Click blue Share button
Show slides from your laptop.
Meeting Owl configuration 4.movConfiguration 4
Configuration 4
Goal- remote learners can see everyone AND see teacher iPad (good for document camera or app demo)
Set up:
Connect laptop via HDMI if using a TV
Plug in Meeting Owl to laptop (usb) and power
Plug in iPad to laptop with lightning cable
Open Quicktime Player. File > New Movie Recording > Click arrow next to record button > Change Camera from FaceTime HD Camera to iPad (it will show the name of your iPad, ex: Bill’s iPad 6)
Start Google Meet
Select Owl as camera: Options (three dots, looks like Snowman) > Settings > Video > Change from FaceTime Camera to Meeting Owl
In Meet, click Present Now > Your Entire Screen > Single click on preview of Screen > Click blue Share button
Show slides from your laptop.
Meeting Owl tips.MP4Tips
Tips
During screen sharing, Remote Learners can toggle between slides and Owl camera full screen, tap on video in bottom right corner, tap on Owl Camera, and tap Pin icon. To switch back to slides, tap videos and unpin camera.
On a classroom TV, you will need to choose what students see when sharing your screen. In-person learners will see either slides full screen or see remote learners on screen.
Please do NOT invite all in-person learners to a Google Meet call as a workaround. If 300 students are all on video calls at once, it will cause our network to crash.
(Geeky details about quantity of synchronous calls: our Comcast internet connection was recently upgraded from 70mb/s to 1gb/s, a tenfold increase. Even with that, an HD video call takes on average 5mb/s. If the only network activity was video calls, we could support 200 simultaneous video calls. If more join or if we use our network for anything else, video quality will auto-adjust, resulting in lower resolution. After that, using the internets would crash to a halt).Page updated
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