Friday, January 22, 2010

Adding Captions to YouTube Videos

How to add captions to your YouTube videos
Samuel Axon writes: “Once you’ve uploaded a video to your YouTube account, you have two options for generating subtitles for the video: You can use the CaptionTube web app that Google has created, or you can upload a transcript you make yourself and use Google’s speech-recognition technology to automatically assign the right times to each caption. In either case, you’ll end up with a text file that you can edit to make corrections and viewers will be able to either read the captions in their native language or translate them on the fly when watching your video.”...

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Homework help is just a few clicks away, thanks to the New York Public Library's (NYPL) groundbreaking new interactive Dial-A-Teacher Whiteboard. Four nights a week, the online program connects students and teachers in real time through a secure digital whiteboard, where they can chat about assignments and draw their responses on the shared board. Check out the link for more information.