Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Captioning Lectures

There are four brands of software that most colleges use for captioning lectures: 3Play Media, Echo360, Sonic Foundry's Mediasite, and McGraw-Hill's Tegrity. Besides providing a needed service for deaf students, the value of captioning extends to everyone in the classroom. Students can use the transcription to search for a keyword and jump to any part of a video to find exactly what they need.