Caption TubeJustin Williams7/22/12

What is Caption Tube

•Caption Tube is a web 2.0 tool that is used to add captions to videos viewed on YouTube.

•CaptionTube: Home•Caption tube provides a scaled time line

that makes it easier to cut and paste and insert accurate closed captions to the video.

How does it work?

•First, you will upload a video from your computer or from YouTube that you want to add captions to. You can take a prior video from YouTube because that is a public website.

How does it work? Con’t

•Tutorial video on Caption Tube

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvFbP82cYcs

Logging In

•Log onto Captiontube.com▫Create a new username and password. ▫***If you already have a Google account,

you can use that username and password to access caption tube. ***

▫Next, you can load a video from your computer or from YouTube and begin clicking away!

Pros

•A free tool that can be used to speak to your classroom.

•You can include videos already produced on youtube.com.

•Great for engaging students and audiences for presentations

•Used to add additional information to the video and mark important concepts.

Disadvantages

•Requires a lot of time to edit videos. Can require the teacher a lot of additional time to incorporate.

•Sometimes, because the way the videos are made, the captions may be a little off with timing due to the chopiness of cutting.

Summary

•Overall, this is a useful and successful tool that can be used for classrooms to relay additional information.

•A lesson plan example can include listing the class’ homework at the end of the video and the students can copy the homework down.

•This tool is free and linked to your Google account.

Thanks for taking the time to learn about Captiontube.com and please check it out!!!!