1. Retooling the captioning workflow for mobile learning NMC Summer 2006 Jeremiah Parry-Hill, Ian Webber Rochester Institute of Technology

2. Mobile Learning Provides students with a variety of courseware delivery options Allows access to media on multiple devices Makes production process more complex and expensive

3. Multivariate Analysis Our first attempt at mobile delivery Exploration to move away from costly CD production Streamed, Downloaded, on CD and Podcast Students preferred to download entire lectures for local viewing http://blade.rit.edu/faculty/smleqa/index.html

4. Captioning Process

5. Making multiple formats work Use batch compress for your video Reuse caption data Embedded captions limit your options

6. Tools MacCaption Magpie CaptionKeeper Automatic Sync

7. Podcast Captioning Convert QTText to a.mov Add to Selection & Scale Reposition caption field Export as iPod video

8. RIT Flash Captioning Simplify production process Reuse caption data Give the viewer a user-friendly interface Uses XML to make player extremely flexible

10. Flash Captioning Convert QTText to XML Create XML for media Select player Post file

11. Future Features? Persistent user preferences (size, color, number of caption lines) Better scaling of player and captions Build an authoring tool for creating caption XML files Add hooks to display captions from FLV cue points Internationalization support

12. The Future Interactive web apps (AJAX, etc.) Crowdsourcing - group edit Putting the tools in the hands of the faculty More sophisticated search Voice recognition

13. Questions? http://www.rit.edu/~jiwetc Jeremiah Parry-Hill jlpetc@rit.edu Ian Webber jiwetc@rit.edu