Caption Tube, What is it?
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Justin Williams
7/22/12
Caption Tube
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!