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Dr. N. Katherine Hayles
Are Computer Technologies Just Tools?

Dr. N. Katherine Hayles

James B. Duke Professor Emerita of Literature, Duke University

Asking if computers are just tools invites us to consider whether our interactions with them are transforming what it means to be human. This talk will explore scientific research and fictional narratives that suggest programmable and networked media are neurologically, socially, culturally, and economically transforming how humans function. A case will be made that humans and computational media have now become symbionts, each facilitating the life cycle of the other. Crafting a framework in which meaning making is not longer an exclusively human prerogative, the talk will conclude by exploring the implications of this perspective.

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.