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+# Livestream practice
+
+This page contains various exercises to be done during
+
+## Sound checks
+
+Do the bottom two exercises from {doc}`sound`.  Audio quality and
+balance is an important prerequisite for any teaching.
+
+
+...
+## Personal audio configuration
+
+Purpose: verify that you have sufficient audio dynamic range
+
+* Adjust your mic volume to very low (as heard by others)
+* Adjust your mic volume to too high (as heard by others)
+  * OS volume
+  * Microphone position and physical volume
+  * Application volume
+
+If either end is inaccessible to you, we might have a case where there
+isn't enough dynamic range to balance the instructors.
+
+
+## Sound check
+
+Purpose: learn the standard audio check and balance audio quickly.
+
+- Pick a leader.
+- The leader decides the order ("I am first, then [name-1] and
+  [name-2]")
+- The leader says "one".  Everyone else says "one" in the order
+  specified.
+- The leader says "two".  Everyone else says "two" in the order.
+- The leader asks for opinions on who they think is louder or softer.
+  If there are three or more people, you can figure it out
+  yourselves.  With two or less, you have to ask someone in the
+  audience.
+
+Do this until it's fast and smooth.
+...
+
+
+
+## Screenshare check
+
+Purpose: be able to share screen in a way that can be broadcasted.
+Remember this size so that it can be set up quickly later - you'll
+need to do this quickly, without hesitation, later on.
+
+Background: most Zoom instances allow you to "share a portition of the
+screen", which should be 840 wide × 1080 tall.  This is rendered
+pixel-perfect by YouTube and also forces a "small screen" so that you
+don't share too much, and learners have space on their own screens.
+
+:::{exercise} Demonstrate a proper screenshare
+
+* Share your screen and adjust for portrait mode.
+* If you can't share a portion of the screen, share your whole
+  screen and tell the director what your total resolution is.
+* Director: program in this as a named scene
+* Instructor: Open the preview pane to see how it looks
+* Instructor: make a note (tape on your screen?) to indicate the
+  amount of space you have.
+:::
+
+
+
+## Announciator panel
+
+Purpose: Understand how non-verbal instructor feedback works.
+
+* Open the announciator panel (Broadcaster will provide a link)
+* Enable audio and disable SSL so that it works
+* Director:
+  * Explain the indicator buttons and what they mean.
+  * Understand what effects these buttons have and when to use them.
+
+Roleplay:
+
+* An instructor is speaking without audio being on.
+
+
+
+## Going live
+
+Purpose: director learns to "herd the cats" into getting the stream started.
+
+* Announce it's almost time
+* Hide any other videos
+* Decide who is sharing screen
+* Decide who is speaking first when you go live and what the first
+  words will be.
+* Configure "back to", broadcaster audio, and jingle
+* "Starting in 3 2 1"
+* Say some words
+* (Share notes and comment on )
+
+
+## Introduce exercises
+
+Purpose: Move to exercises in a controlled manner.
+
+* Say what exercises are
+  * What your goal is
+  * How far you should get
+  * Common things that might go wrong
+* Add the exercise info + above questions to the notes
+* Answer any questions from the notes (this )
+* Verify that it is in the notes
+* Leave to the break.
+
+
+## Going to a break
+
+* Look at the notes, anything to be answered?  (At least let people
+  know it's in use)
+* Say when we come back and what to expect then.
+* Say "bye".
+* Director pushes the "BEAK" button.
+* Update the notes:
+  * Break info block
+  * When back
+  * Exercise link (if any)
+  * What the expectations are
+
+
+
+
+
+...
+...
+...
+
+
+## Notes fixup
+
+Purpose: learn the common things that can go wrong in the notes and
+fix them.
+
+
+Fix up these notes:
+
+* spacing is off (missing blank lines between qusetions, missing blank
+  lines in bullet points)
+* questions not answered
+* Section headings at wrong levels
+* exercises not described
+* titles not there
+* people answering above the exercise definition
+* no template lines at the bottom.
+
+
+Roleplay:
+one person teaches, several people write badly in Notes, trainees have
+to fix up in real time
+
+
+
+## Lesson preparation
+
+* Explain the point of a lesson in a few sentences
+* Explain what you will not cover
+
+
+## Lesson revision
+
+* Revise this lesson to make it more usable for someone who doesn't
+  know the command line (or is in some other way different from you).