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Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar Channel and in today's video, I'll give you a brief tutorial on using Zoom, which seems to be the video conferencing service of choice during quarantine. Okay -- now that I've done about 12 impromptu Zoom tutorials for family and friends, I figured it might be helpful to do a quick video on it.  I'll definitely go over attending a Zoom meeting, but I'll also cover how to schedule a meeting, invite others, and I'll review some of the cool features. I've used Zoom many times before all this since it is the video conferencing app favored by my grad school program, but it's only in Coronavirus quarantine that I've felt compelled to purchase a Pro account and really learn how to use it.  I've used Zoom to schedule regular meetings with colleagues and fellow students, but now I've also scheduled Zoom happy hours, dinner parties, game nights, and even my grandma's memorial servic

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar Channel and in today's video, I'll share 3 tips for connecting with your older relatives to to learn more about them, create a closer relationship, and fill in some of your family history. My grandma passed away about 3 weeks ago.  It was not Coronavirus related, although it happened right after everything started to lock down, so we weren't able to say our goodbyes in person or travel to have an in-person memorial service for her.  That said, she was 97 and was ready to give up the physical struggle that had defined her life for the past several years.  We were lucky to have so many full years with her, but we are all so sad that she is gone -- as evidenced by the outpouring of emotion on our family's Celebration of Life Zoom ceremony for her.   This video isn't about my grandma specifically, but her passing has reminded me to share three things that I thought were important in my relationship with h