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Re: Linking to YouTube videos from course Web sites

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From: Emma Duke-Williams
Date: Apr 4, 2008 3:20AM

I guess the other thing that needs to be considered from a pragmatic
point of view ...

Do I have students who require captions this academic year?
If no, and I create the captions this year, in case we have students
next year who require them, how likely is the video to still be there?

(Much as we might timetable a class to a classroom up tnarrow stairs
this year, but put it on the ground floor next year, when there's
someone who can't negotiate the stairs)

Emma

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Christian Heilmann < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Jan Heck wrote:
> > Increasingly, our instructors are linking to YouTube videos or Flash
> > presentations from other sources. I know if we "built them" ourselves, we
> > would need to caption them. In the case of linking to others' content, of
> > course, we don't have the rights/permissions to caption and re-post the
> > captioned versions of such content. Obviously, there's no audio
> > descriptions for blind or visually-impaired students either. I'm pretty
> > sure we also don't have the right to post a transcript of the linked video
> > on our course Web sites (as perhaps the closest approximation to a
> > reasonable accommodation when we don't have access to the video to caption
> > it).
> >
> > So here are my questions:
> > . My understanding is that all videos we produce must be captioned,
> > whether the material is required or supplementary for the course.
> > . How does this get applied when there's a plethora of good content
> > available "out there," but we don't have control over whether or not it's
> > captioned?
> > . How accessible is the YouTube interface in general terms?
> >
> > I would love some input on this!
> >
> It is quite interesting, as Youtube just released an API that allows you
> to access the player. I've been playing with it to write a captioning
> interface, but haven't come around to building a player yet:
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> http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/03/12/video-captioning-made-easy-with-the-youtube-javascript-api/
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> http://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann/accessihacking-online-video/
>
> You could use this to at least build a time-based description of what is
> happening in the video.
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