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.

1. Linda Fahlberg-Stojanovska
Tim Fahlberg
Screencasts,
Captions and your
Global Audience

2. 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

3. Screencasts in Education
Screencasts and Captioning

4. 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

5. 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

6. Jing Project by TechSmith - techsmith.com/jing/
Screencasts for Free

7. 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

8. 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

9. Camtasia Studio by TechSmith -
techsmith.com/camtasia/
• Not free but academic prices
• Record/ Edit/ Enhance
• Multiple outputs
• Now with Automated Captions
Screencasts Professional

10. Screencast with Space for Captions
Embedded Captions

11. YouTube Screencast with Captions
Captions in YouTube

12. 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 screencast
Camtasia Studio® is also ADA compliant.
*Exactly 88 pixels
Screencasts and Captioning

13. 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

14. 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

15. Captions in YouTube

16. Captions in YouTube

17. Captions in YouTube
• Upload to YouTube

18. • 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

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

20. Typing up Captions

21. Adding Captions to YouTube

22. Adding Captions to YouTube

23. Adding Captions to YouTube

24. Adding Captions to YouTube

25. – Viewing with Captions Closed
Captions in YouTube

26. – Viewing with English Captions (original)
Captions in YouTube

27. – Viewing with Translated Captions
Captions in YouTube

28. 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)

29. Speech–to–text option
Captions in Camtasia Studio

30. Speech-to-Text Aids in CS
Captions in Camtasia Studio

31. Captions in Camtasia Studio

32. or Use our own text and Sync captions
Captions in Camtasia Studio

33. Caption Track in CS
Captions in Camtasia Studio

34. Captions in Camtasia Studio
With embedded captions
• Upload it to screencast.com
• Upload it to teachertube.com
• …
• Example:
http://www.screencast.com/t/8wWaL7U9Zm

35. Screencast with Embedded Captions
Captions in Camtasia Studio

36. Linda Fahlberg-Stojanovska
Tim Fahlberg
Screencasts, Captions
and your Global
Audience