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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dear ATHENites<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>I received an enthusiastic testimonial by e-mail this morning from one of my favorite faculty members here at the college. It took me a long time to convince him/win him over in making his courses accessible. Once I did make headway, it was as if the floodgates released! Now he is one of the biggest enthusiastic promoters of making his online courses accessible. While we all know that there is no "perfect" solution for providing captioning for the videos they show in class, having a faculty member so enthusiastically share their revelation about how easy it is to do some of the things that may courses accessible is refreshing. I am extremely grateful for having won over someone who can also influence so many others by his being willing to share his newfound knowledge and techniques with other faculty! Following are some excerpts of the e-mail I received from him today. Those of you who are curious feel free to contact me off-line and I'll send you the link of to his experiment on YouTube. It may be an interesting look at what possibilities there are for demonstrating to others a simple technique that faculty can do on their own to make courses more accessible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>"Wink:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>I have been working to freshen up my web pages for my two online classes, and I have been struggling with the issue of making sure that I have transcripts for all video clips that don't come with closed captions. Last night, I had a major revelation. Forgive me if you know all this already, but I was wondering if you had looked at the way YouTube allows people to add closed captions to their own videos.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>What I didn't know is that all you need is a transcript file. YouTube takes care of the <i>timings!</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>It's a little video I have prepared for my course, and I had a transcript all prepared. The rest was, as they say, cake.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Again: If I am telling you what you already know, forgive me, but I had absolutely no idea it was going to be this easy. Did everybody in the world know this and I just didn't get the message? Strikes me that we should be promoting this tool since we've started using YouTube for streaming our own videos.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Anyway, just wondered if you knew."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I have already thanked him for his enthusiasm and for sharing this. I hope his enthusiasm is contagious!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Blessings all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Wink<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ms. Wink Harner<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Project Support<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>OHS - NU6 119<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mesa Community College<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>1833 W. Southern Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mesa AZ 85202<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:winkharner@mesacc.edu">winkharner@mesacc.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT-BR style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>480-461-7448<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>