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Axel
Olson
Adjunct Faculty

Axel Olson is a designer, researcher and educator whose work focuses on the impacts of digital platforms on physical space, design representation and methods of architectural production. Axel holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan, where he earned a Graduate Certificate from the Digital Studies Institute.
His work has been published and recognized by Metropolis Magazine, Soiled Zine, the Architizer Vision Awards, Archisource Drawing of the Year Awards and the KRob Delineation Awards. Axel has contributed to practices including T+E+A+M, Extents, Ply+ and the Chicago Studio of Perkins and Will, and maintains his own creative practice, Another Inc.

Alex Olson

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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.