Syllabus for Accessible Multimedia
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Certificate in Accessible Information Technology
Everyone who completes an EASI course will receive an EASI document of completion for that course. Those completing 5 of these courses will earn the EASI Certificate in Accessible Information Technology.
Schedule for 2017: Feb. 6, August 7
(Registration is $350 with a discount for EASI Annual Members, students and for participants from overseas) and payment can be made by credit card PO or by check
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Course Outline
Lesson 1: Welcome to Captioning and Transcription
- Caption terminology
- types of captions: open or closed
- caption guidelines and legal standards
- creating the transcription
- transcriptions should include: spoken content, speaker id and sound effects /li>
- lesson 1 assignment
Lesson 2: YouTube Captioning Basics
- Creating a video to upload to YouTube
- Creating the audio and selecting the mic
- Uploading the video to YouTube
- selecting either auto or manual transcription
- creating a transcription outside of YouTube
- helpful YouTube tips and tricks
- editing the transcription and aligning it
- publishing the finished video
- outside tools and resources
- lesson 2 assignment
Lesson 3: Advanced Captioning Tools and Techniques
- creating a transcript using voice recognition from the video's audio
- overview of voice recognition applications
- overview of transcription input applications to use with voice recognition
- editing and synching the transcription with the video
- lesson 3 assignment
Lesson 4: Audio Description: Getting Started
- what is video description and how does it work?
- what is the role of the narrator
- how to know what to describe
- video description guidelines and resources
- adding and synching the audio track of the video description to the video
- lesson 4 assignment
(Registration is $350 with a discount for EASI Annual Members, students and for participants from overseas) and payment can be made by credit card PO or by check
You can use this secure server to register and pay for Creating multimedia
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