How to use these videos in Zoom [this is a README.txt]

Frank.Ritter@psu.edu
29 ct 2020/16 Nov 2020/10 Dec 20/5 Feb 21/12 Jul 21/9 Aug 21

This work was done in close cooperation with Martin Yeh at Penn State/Brandywine, Luke Zhang at PSU, and also supported by my small company.

Purpose
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You put these videos up as a Virtual Background in Zoom. They act as timers for talks, classes, and meetings. 

They have appeared on TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nFE0SMn2Es , around 4:27 (yes, hour 4, min. 27 in a local government meeting), where they were banned.  They have been banned by a Penn State branch campus faculty senate chair. As seen on TV and Banned in Brandywine!

To use them:

 1. Download what ones you want, or all of them.  
    Their names indicate how long they are.

    iccm-talk-timerV7-5minQ10-2fps.mov  
        is 5 min long with 10 min questions, at 2 frames per second

 2. Put them where Zoom can find them. 
    I put them in a folder called Applications:Zoom-images on my Mac, but they can be anywhere.

 3. In the Zoom interface, in Settings, in Choose Virtual Background, you click
    on the plus button, and choose the file to add.  

 4. Select the video as the virtual background by clicking on it. 

 5. Each time you click on the video or restart video sharing, the video will restart from the beginning.  
    
    Restarting is a feature and a limitation. You cannot add more time easily, and you
    cannot subtract time easily; you have to use another video to make that change. 
    For example, in a meeting, I set the timer for 15 using the 15 min video. I 
    was told we actually had 45 min, so I then selected that video. 


Provenance
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These timers were developed for use at the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM) when it was held at Penn State in 2016.  

They were revised for use in Zoom for PSU Parents' weekend talks in 2020, and then expanded with encouragement from Peggy Stanton.  

We now have a plain one in a nice formal font. The first public one was for Halloween. There is now Thanksgiving, secular Christmas, Winter, and Spring-Summer. 

Halloween:  The top font is Advocate, a bespoke font by Butterick (https://practicaltypography.com/advocate.html), and the bottom font is Scary Halloween (https://phelanriessen.com/font/scary-halloween-font/) found in a library (https://www.dafont.com/).

Thanksgiving: The top font is Advocate, and the timer font is Puritan from https://www.dafont.com/ . The turkey is the letter "p" in "thanksgiving turkeyÓ font. The roast turkey is from iStockphoto.com's free library. 

The remaining videos document themselves near the last frame.