Virtual platforms for transnational dialogue: Lesson learned
Low-Tech Video Sharing In place of screensharing videos for the event, we had one person point their camera at a separate laptop where the videos were played. This person was pinned on zoom, so that everyone in attendance could see their screen. This low-tech approach to sharing videos was chosen for a number of different reasons. Foremost, we determined this method was the simplest way for us to play videos, with the fewest possibilities of things going wrong or being outside of our control. In previous work we had run into issues with playing videos over a shared screen. This sometimes resulted in videos lagging or zoom freezing for attendees. This method was better for the connection of youth and adults joining either on data on their phones or from other locations with poorer or unreliable internet connections. Additionally, for youth who were giving presentations, they had the option to pre-record a video of their presentation. If they had internet issues or were not comfortable presenting live, the prerecorded video was presented using the same method of showing a separate laptop screen on zoom. One issue we ran into, in this method of video sharing, was there was a small amount of glare on the videos being played reflecting of the laptop screen.
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