Friday
Oct182002
248 - Ooops! How I Learned to Include Transcripts and Slower Bandwidth & Special TechLearn Briefing on Blended Learning
October 18, 2002
#248 - - - October 18, 2002 - - - 44,269 Readers
*** Elliott Masie's TechLearn TRENDS ***
Training, e-Learning and Collaboration Updates
Published by The MASIE Center www.masie.com
Host of: TechLearn 2002 - Oct 27-30 - Orlando, FL
1. Ooops! How I Learned to Include Transcripts and Slower Bandwidth
2. Special TechLearn Briefing on Blended Learning
1. Ooops! How I Learned to Include Transcripts: Several weeks ago, we
published a ten minute video streamed message as part of a pre-TechLearn
briefing. Basking in the wonders of high speed bandwidth and the quick
production facilities at our Center, I recorded the piece, compressed it
for streaming and announced it in TRENDS. Several major learnings
happened from your feedback:
- About 3 hours later I received several emails from readers asking where
the text transcription was. Certainly, The MASIE Center would include
Section 508 capability, so that a non-hearing reader could benefit from
the briefing. I turned red and thought about how we would add text.
Found several places on the internet, both in the US and offshore, who
would turn around a Windows Media File of the audio and turn it into text
very rapidly and at a very affordable price. So, all of our videos now
will also ship with a text transcription.
- The second learning was from readers who asked for two changes in the
format. Some said, why not just send it out as an audio file. Since
these briefings are just informal "talking head" videos of me, why clog up
the bandwidth with video. They wanted a pure audio feed, which could move
along with the lowest possible connection. So, all future video briefings
will include an audio only option.
- The third learning was from folks who asked for a lower speed version of
the video, for times when the connection would be lower or the demand on
our server too high to support a higher speed. Made perfect sense, so all
future postings will include a lower speed version as the default and then
a high speed option if the connectivity spirits are smiling that day.
I really appreciate the feedback. It did not raise our cost by more than
$60 for the entire project to add these features. Thanks!
2. Special TechLearn Briefing on Blended Learning: Here is a ten minute
TechLearn Briefing on the topic of Blended Learning, focusing on the key
issues related to the growing deployment of Blended Learning. The URL for
this video briefing (with text, audio and low speed video options) is:
http://www.techlearn.com/briefing
There is still time to register for TechLearn 2002 to be held in Orlando,
Florida, on Oct 27 to 30, 2002. Info at http://www.techlearn.com
*** Elliott Masie's TechLearn TRENDS ***
Training, e-Learning and Collaboration Updates
Published by The MASIE Center www.masie.com
Host of: TechLearn 2002 - Oct 27-30 - Orlando, FL
1. Ooops! How I Learned to Include Transcripts and Slower Bandwidth
2. Special TechLearn Briefing on Blended Learning
1. Ooops! How I Learned to Include Transcripts: Several weeks ago, we
published a ten minute video streamed message as part of a pre-TechLearn
briefing. Basking in the wonders of high speed bandwidth and the quick
production facilities at our Center, I recorded the piece, compressed it
for streaming and announced it in TRENDS. Several major learnings
happened from your feedback:
- About 3 hours later I received several emails from readers asking where
the text transcription was. Certainly, The MASIE Center would include
Section 508 capability, so that a non-hearing reader could benefit from
the briefing. I turned red and thought about how we would add text.
Found several places on the internet, both in the US and offshore, who
would turn around a Windows Media File of the audio and turn it into text
very rapidly and at a very affordable price. So, all of our videos now
will also ship with a text transcription.
- The second learning was from readers who asked for two changes in the
format. Some said, why not just send it out as an audio file. Since
these briefings are just informal "talking head" videos of me, why clog up
the bandwidth with video. They wanted a pure audio feed, which could move
along with the lowest possible connection. So, all future video briefings
will include an audio only option.
- The third learning was from folks who asked for a lower speed version of
the video, for times when the connection would be lower or the demand on
our server too high to support a higher speed. Made perfect sense, so all
future postings will include a lower speed version as the default and then
a high speed option if the connectivity spirits are smiling that day.
I really appreciate the feedback. It did not raise our cost by more than
$60 for the entire project to add these features. Thanks!
2. Special TechLearn Briefing on Blended Learning: Here is a ten minute
TechLearn Briefing on the topic of Blended Learning, focusing on the key
issues related to the growing deployment of Blended Learning. The URL for
this video briefing (with text, audio and low speed video options) is:
http://www.techlearn.com/briefing
There is still time to register for TechLearn 2002 to be held in Orlando,
Florida, on Oct 27 to 30, 2002. Info at http://www.techlearn.com
