New to Zoom? No Problem
We’ve got new tools you can use to offer folks in your community a fun and interactive gathering focused on recycling, waste prevention or composting. People are looking for ways to connect, distractions for worries, and ways to make a difference. Invite your family, members of your knitting club, your co-workers, or folks from your congregation to join a 40 minute interactive experience online. Or contact the Master Recycler program to be connected to an organization that would to have you present for them.
Step One: the presentation
Make your own power point or keep it really simple and use props to make an interactive presentation. You can even take people outside to see your recycling containers or backyard compost pile!
Or use one of these ready made presentations on recycling, backyard composting, the repair movement or food waste prevention:
Share your enthusiasm for recycling with this short presentation about what goes in the recycling and what goes in the garbage. Includes the Recycle or Not game you can play with your guests!
Recycle or Not presentation with notes. Print or use a phone to see notes during the presentation.
Many people are trying gardening for the first time. Help them learn how to make a rich soil amendment to ensure they have a successful bounty.
With all the disruption in our food systems and difficulty just getting in and getting out of the grocery stores, people are looking for new ways to ensure that the food that they buy doesn’t go bad. What a perfect time to introduce them to the Eat Smart, Waste Less program!
Eat Smart, Waste Less with notes. Print or use a phone to see notes during the presentation.
Ready for a more complicated but fascinating presentation? Talk about how “planned obsolescence” has us all consuming more resources than our planet can give and the power consumers have to reuse and repair instead.
Reuse and Repair with notes. Print or use a phone to see notes during the presentation.
This presentation was designed for Master Recyclers on the Portland Sustainability at Work team so they can offer presentations while businesses are working remotely. But it may be a useful alternative presentation on the basics in recycling.
Sustainability at Work Presentation with notes. Print or use on phone to see notes during presentation
Step Two: the invitation
Send an invitation to your friends, family, co-workers, folks from your community of faith or whoever you would like to invite. They don’t have to have a computer. They can join the video by smart phone, or they can call in with a regular phone.
Ask your guests to RSVP. DO NOT post a link for your zoom meeting on social media (this can give strangers access to your gathering)!!!
Sign up for a free zoom account. The free accounts allow unlimited meeting times for 1 x 1 meetings, but limit meeting time to 40 minutes with 3 or more participants. If you have a different platform you already like using for meetings, by all means use that.
Invite guests who have RSVP’d: When you schedule the meeting, it generates a link. Click on that link and is generates a box with instructions to join the meeting by phone or video. Copy and paste those instructions somewhere you can remember. Then once you have all your RSVP’s, send them the instructions to join the meeting. DO NOT post a link to your zoom meeting on social media (this can give strangers access to your meeting)!!!
Step Three: Practice
Practice your presentation until you are very comfortable and then practice using zoom (especially if you are using slides!!).
Step four: Meeting time!
(This is for small gatherings of about 20 or less, if you are going larger, check in with Lauren for extra tips):
Before the meeting, open your pdf/power point with slides if you are using that option.
Join your meeting early.
Turn on the record button (bonus half hour to Master Recyclers who record and send the recording for the MR YouTube Channel!)
If your community is not used to zoom, be patient. People take quite a bit of time getting in and getting used to turning on their videos/mics etc. Make sure your presentation is about 10-15 minutes shorter if you think folks need this time.
If you use slides in your presentation, you can share your screen with your audience by clicking the share screen button on the bottom of the screen.
Don’t forget to have fun!!
Step Four: Follow up
When you close the meeting, it will finish the recording and save it in your documents. Please send the file that ends with MP4 to masterrecycler@portlandoregon.gov Your video will be loaded on YouTube Master Recycler channel. You will receive a link that you can share with your guests or people who might have missed the presentation.