<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV>On the topic of support students with hearing loss in lectures/classrooms, etc., if it's a lecture then captioning either a video or audio file makes so much sense (assuming that a computer is the playback environment). All students would benefit from this as captioning is a way to reinforce concepts, terms, etc. Students who are familiar with words and terminology used in the subject area do the captioning as part of their work study.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We created a captioning and descriptive video editor a few years back, called CapScribe. We use it a lot in-house, but it's open-source, free to anyone, runs on Mac OS 10.3 or greater. Documentation could be better but still, it's a quick learning curve. Reports back from users suggest that it's pretty easy to use. Quicktime compatible media is required and Quicktime is required to to play back content (not a big deal in the era of iPod and iTunes saturation). Check out some samples on its <A href="http://www.capscribe.com">home page</A> also on the ARTC's <A href="http://snow.utoronto.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=311&Itemid=215">SNOW</A> site. <A href="http://snow.utoronto.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=321&Itemid=228">Catherine Frazee's talk</A> at the 2005 United Nations International Day of Disabled Persons is a particularly inspiring. Feel free to contact me off-line if you're interested in using it or have questions.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/magpie2_download.html">Magpie</A> from NCAM at WGBH is the other currently free editor. It runs on both Mac and Windows.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>best,</DIV><DIV>Charles</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">_______________</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Charles Silverman, M.Ed.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">SNOW Coordinator</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Adaptive Technology Resource Centre</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Faculty of Information Studies</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">University of Toronto</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><I>"Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books." - Harper Lee</I></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Message: 1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: Thu,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>8 Feb 2007 00:36:32 -0600</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From: "Stacy L. Smith" <<A href="mailto:stacylee@ksu.edu">stacylee@ksu.edu</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject: Re: [Athen] Help for Hard of Hearing student</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><<A href="mailto:athen@athenpro.org">athen@athenpro.org</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Message-ID: <<A href="mailto:1170916592.45cac4f038037@webmail.ksu.edu">1170916592.45cac4f038037@webmail.ksu.edu</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks to everyone who has sent great advice both on and off list.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'm</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">hoping to speak to the student soon to see if any of this will work for</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">him.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Captioning is obviously the best solution, but if I can help him hear</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">more course material now, I'd rather.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Has anyone had any luck convincing instructors to create transcripts</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">before they create course content?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'm just starting to talk to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">instructors and support staff about this and if anyone has any</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">experience in this arena, I'd love to hear it.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It takes us 4 hrs per</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">hour of lecture to transcribe in-house (I know it could be better, but</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">this is the option I'm allowed at this point).<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'd do a happy little</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">dance if I could eliminate that need.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks again for the help.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'm very impressed with some of the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">assistive tech that's out there, and I'm VERY glad that you all are</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">available to point me in the right direction!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Stacy</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; 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