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Drawing on Videos Calls (Whiteboard or PDF) (Zoom, Doxy.me, VSee)

Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel.  And in today's video, I'll show you how to use your iPad to draw on a whiteboard or a PDF and share it over a video call. I'm a mental health therapist who started seeing clients during Covid lockdown exclusively over telehealth.  Now, I'm in person a couple of days, but I still see the majority of my clients using a video call platform.  Since I'm a visual person, I like to share images and drawings with my clients to help explain concepts.  It was important for me to figure out how to do this even when seeing clients remotely. Okay -- here were my requirements: I see most of my clients through Doxy.me , but a couple over Zoom, so those are the main platforms I'll be discussing.  These methods should also work for other video call apps. Although I use a Mac laptop for video calls, I wanted to be able to draw on my iPad for a whiteboard.  I hate having to use a mouse to draw when I could...

Tools for Staying Social in Coronavirus Lockdown

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Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, let’s talk about how to stay social during the Coronavirus lockdown.  My community has not been told to shelter in place yet, but we’ve all basically decided to do so.  As you know, what this means in practice is no going out except to pick up essentials like medicine or groceries and to have things delivered if at all possible.  This represents, as it does for everyone, a drastic difference in the amount of social contact that we all have — which is obviously the point!  But humans are social animals and we need human interaction to be emotionally healthy. So, it’s time to get creative about the ways that we interact during a quarantine.  I’m going to list all of the options from least intensive and interactive to most.  Group text chats I have several of these going in regular life, but they are even more important when you don’t see people regular...