iPod Touch/iPad resources

Just had an excellent resource passed on to me regarding iPod touch and iPad apps.  There are literally thousands of apps out there.  It would be a full time job just trying to sort through them all.  Luckily there is a guy who does this for you.  He handles all of the training on iPod touches for his school and posts his resources on his website.  The site is http://ipodtouchtraining.weebly.com/.

On a separate note, I had a chance to check out Proloquo2Go on the iPad.  My first impression is very positive.

Closed Captioning becoming readily available

I remember going to a session on closed captioning at a conference a couple years ago.  Although the presenter did an excellent job walking through the process of creating subtitles I remember leaving thinking that there is no way this is something an average video poster could or would do.  Not only did it require several pieces of software, but it was a very time consuming process.

It looks like this is all starting to change.  I received an email from a friend on the Universal Subtitles movement.  Mozilla (makers of Firefox) is playing a major role in this movement.  According to their site, The Universal Subtitles project will make it easy for anyone, anywhere to create and view video subtitles. You can learn more about it here:  The Universal Subtitles Project

Also, Google is now making it easy to add closed captioning to YouTube videos.  Learn more about it here: YouTube Closed Captioning.  One thing I took away from reading about it was that if you are in need of a video with closed captioning, just choose “Type: Closed Captioning” before you begin your search.

Please leave comments if you know of other resources!

Just received a Proxtalker

Just got my demo proxtalker - http://proxtalker.com/.  Look forward to showing it off next week at Kentucky cooperative network meetings.