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Faculty + Staff

Ralph
Nelson
Associate Professor

Nelson is an associate professor in the College of Architecture and Design. He teaches in the Architecture and Architectural Engineering programs at the University. His teaching and research focus on the nature of design from a systems, material and ethical perspective with emphasis on elegant integration.

Nelson is a registered architect and founding principal of Loom, a collaborative practice of art, design and architecture recognized for work that utilizes a minimum of resources to maximum effect. The work of Loom has been published widely and has received several regional and national design awards including three Progressive Architecture Awards and an R+D award. The work of Loom is in the collection of several museums including The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Nelson holds a master’s degree in Architecture from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Minnesota. He has been a visiting design critic at the University of Toronto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Cranbrook Academy of Arts, University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, UCLA, California College of the Arts, Rhode Island School of Design and the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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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.