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My Social Media Plan

Jason Carroll — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:42:27 +0000

This plan will probably fail miserably, but my goal is to drastically increase my usage of social media for finding and disseminating resources in 2012. I try to provide resources related to Assistive and Instructional Technology (and just plain old best practices) weekly (starting in January) through this blog, and now will attempt to do so in 140 characters or less through twitter. Ideally I will tweet a resource a day (or at least week day) startin in January. These resources will include blog posts, product reviews, websites, other twitter users to follow and more.

I plan to use Google+ for this as well since it has some great features, but I’m still trying to work through a few privacy issues with it. In the mean time, you can find me on twitter at twitter.com/jkcarroll.

Updated Posts beginning in January

Jason Carroll — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:26:58 +0000

I apologize to those of you who take time to visit this blog from time to time and have found no new information. I have turned into a road warrior lately and have had the opportunity to be working in locations from Alaska to Spain. I realize the importance in keeping an up to date blog with fresh ideas and information however and will resume weekly posts (at a minimum) beginning in January. I look forward to connecting with everyone in the near future.

- Jason C.

iPod Touch/iPad resources

Jason Carroll — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:39:19 +0000

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

Jason Carroll — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:05:27 +0000

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!