screencasts, captions and your global audience

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Making and publishing screencasts must become a required tool in education for both teachers and students. Adding captions makes our screencasts more accessible to all learners and YouTube translates captions into many, many languages. Learn how to caption screencasts so they are available to a global audience.

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Linda Fahlberg-StojanovskaTim Fahlberg

Screencasts, Captions and your Global Audience

Screencasts in Education• A screencast is a digital recording of computer

screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencast

• Screen output– Before mostly for demonstrating software– NOW with Tablet PCs and graphics tablets, this

can include any instruction!

Screencasts and Captioning

Screencasts in Education

Screencasts and Captioning

Screencasts in Education• Instructional Video - value of getting your

message out as teachers in an audio/video format that can be replayed.

• Student Portfolios - talking through their thinking and working surely increases their understanding (and our understanding of their understanding).

Screencasts and Captioning

Screencasts in Education• Making and publishing screencasts must

become a required tool in education.

• The tools are available and both teachers and students can now freely and easily make good, useful screencasts and post them on the internet.

Screencasts and Captioning

Jing Project by TechSmith - techsmith.com/jing/

Screencasts for Free

Jing Project by TechSmith - techsmith.com/jing/

• Jing is free.• Make screenshots or screencasts.• Annotate them.

• Save or upload immediately.• Screencast.com "Free Account"—2GB

Screencasts for Free

Jing Project by TechSmith - techsmith.com/jing/

• For $15 year – go Pro.– Produce to *png or *mp4

– Direct upload to YouTube

– Record with webcam

Screencasts for Cheap

Camtasia Studio by TechSmith - techsmith.com/camtasia/

• Not free but academic prices

• Record/ Edit/ Enhance

• Multiple outputs

• Now with Automated Captions

Screencasts Professional

Screencast with Space for Captions

Embedded Captions

YouTube Screencast with Captions

Captions in YouTube

Technical Details for Captioning

YouTube® is ADA compliant: • Caption: 3 lines with 50 characters per line.• Uses or adds:

~100 pixels* to the bottom of screencastCamtasia Studio® is also ADA compliant.

*Exactly 88 pixels

Screencasts and Captioning

Captioning uses or adds 100 pixels to the bottom of your screencast.

• Don’t want to cover up screencast so:– Easiest way is to add 100 pixels of blank space

at the bottom of your screencast while you are recording it!

– For 16x9, this means 960 x 440 recording space + 100 for captions

960 x 540 TOTAL

Screencasts and Captioning

Captions in YouTube

• With 100 pixels blank space at bottom• Resolution 16 x 9 (e.g. 960 x 540)• Produce to HD (CS)• 1280 x 720• Mp4 (MPEG-4)• Upload to your YouTube account

Captions in YouTube

Captions in YouTube

Captions in YouTube

• Upload to YouTube

• Now we need to make caption text.

– Best way is to type up audio.

– There is some “speech-to-text” software available, but works best for good English speakers.

Camtasia Studio 7.1 has this option and you can add “words” to dictionary!

Captions in YouTube

• Produce an audio file mp3 or wav (CS)• Type up using Express Scribe (freeware) • Save in a text file like notepad.

Typing up Captions

Typing up Captions

Adding Captions to YouTube

Adding Captions to YouTube

Adding Captions to YouTube

Adding Captions to YouTube

– Viewing with Captions Closed

Captions in YouTube

– Viewing with English Captions (original)

Captions in YouTube

– Viewing with Translated Captions

Captions in YouTube

Captions in YouTube

• Example here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_raQ7PGhIY0

• Other examples:

YouTube GeoGebraChannel

over 50 HD CC screencasts on using GeoGebra

(GeoGebra is free dynamic software for mathematics)

Speech–to–text option

Captions in Camtasia Studio

Speech-to-Text Aids in CS

Captions in Camtasia Studio

Captions in Camtasia Studio

or Use our own text and Sync captions

Captions in Camtasia Studio

Caption Track in CS

Captions in Camtasia Studio

Captions in Camtasia Studio

With embedded captions• Upload it to screencast.com• Upload it to teachertube.com• …

• Example: http://www.screencast.com/t/8wWaL7U9Zm

Screencast with Embedded Captions

Captions in Camtasia Studio

Linda Fahlberg-StojanovskaTim Fahlberg

Screencasts, Captions and your Global

Audience

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