2. 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.
3. 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.
4. How does it work? Con’t
• Tutorial video on Caption Tube
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvFbP82cYc
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5. 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!
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Thanks for taking the time to
learn about Captiontube.com
and please check it out!!!!
