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Share your videos in multiple languages in a few simple steps

Upload your video Transcribe your video Translate your video Share your video

dotSUB is a browser based, one-stop, self contained system for creating and viewing subtitles for videos in multiple languages across all platforms, including web based, mobile devices, and transcription and video editing systems. You can upload your videos, transcribe and time caption them, translate them into and from any language, and share them with the world. It's easy to use, no need to download anything, and fun. You can also embed the dotSUB player onto most websites and blogs with full dotSUB functionality.

Upload your video Uploading videos onto dotSUB is quick and easy. You can upload any digital file (up to 700MB), choose a license, the genre, source language, source country, director, producer, and you can choose to make your video "public" meaning that anyone who comes to dotSUB can view your video or "private" meaning that you can choose specific dotSUB users you want to have access to your video. Once uploaded, you can embed the dotSUB

player with your video, onto any website or blog with full dotSUB functionality, in multiple sizes and options.

Transcribe your video The dotSUB system is designed so that anyone can quickly and easily caption and time code a video. There is no need to download anything. Just uploaded your video, hit the "transcribe" option and begin transcribing. In no time you will have a captioned video that can be translated into any language using the dotSUB translation user interface, and embedded onto most web sites or blogs and have captions to assist the hearing impaired.

Translate your video

The dotSUB translation user interface is so easy to use that anyone, professional or novice, can translate the original source language into any language by simply typing on your computer keyboard. dotSUB is also designed to be a collaborative tool so that multiple users can work on the

same translation at the same time, allowing for "crowd" created subtitles. You can translate as much or as little as you like. It's easy, quick and fun to use.

Share your video dotSUB allows for any video to be shared with the world in multiple ways. You can embed the dotSUB player, with full dotSUB functionality onto most websites and blogs in a number of size options. You can share videos via FaceBook, Twitter, MySpace and many more.

Give your students a voice with VoiceThread

VoiceThread is a great way to get students interacting with the material you present to them. The can comment in various ways and annotate sources directly. You will need a login to the website and so will each student.

Some tips:• Demonstrate how to make a comment and how to annotate the picture or

video using a projector/interactive whiteboard• If you use VoiceThread during a lesson (e.g. in the ICT suite or library),

allow students some time to choose an avatar. It personalizes the experience for them!

• Make sure your VoiceThread is set to be public, but ‘unlisted’. This means that to find it, you need to give students a link. Random comments by members of the public can then be avoided.

Go to http://www.voicethread.com and click on ‘Sign in or Register’ at the top right-hand corner.

Click on the Register! link.

Fill in the boxes appropriately, then press the ‘register’ button.

N.B. VoiceThread does have an account specially for educators (as you can see above). However, these are not free. You get to create 3 voicethreads for free, after that you could use the one-time $10 option for educators.

Once you’re logged in you should see a screen similar to the one above. Click on ‘Create’ to make your first voicethread!

When you get to a screen like the one above, click on ‘Upload’, click on ‘From My Computer’ and browse to the image or video you want to use.

N.B. You can import photos from Flickr or Facebook, but our school network blocks both of these websites. If you know the URL directly to an image, you can use that.

When your image or video has uploaded, you will be presented with a screen similar to this one. Click on ‘Add a title and description’ at the top.

Add a relevant title and description so your students know where the image or video is from. You can add tags for ease of organization once you have lots of voicethreads.

Click on ‘Comment’ on the left-hand side menu.

The next screen gives you the link that you need to share with students if they are to be able to comment on the voicethread you have just created. Copy and paste it onto a website, email or worksheet!

If you click on the arrow pointing left at the bottom of the screen it will take you to your voicethread.

Click on ‘comment’ underneath the picture or video, and then ‘type’ if you want to add a text comment. Adding the first comment is useful for giving students instructions and showing them what to do. Click ‘save’ when you’re happy with your comment.

If you want to highlight something on the picture or video, use the colour palette at the bottom-right to choose a colour for the ‘pen’. Then just draw on the picture or video!

Click on ‘Share’ in the left-hand menu.

On the ‘Share’ screen, I suggest that you:• Have the VoiceThread as ‘Public, yes comments’

• Comment Moderation off (otherwise students’ comments don’t go live instantly and they can’t edit them)

• Listed on Browse: ‘No’ (this prevents members of the public randomly commenting)

Click on ‘Options’ on the left-hand side menu.

I would suggest that you change the top setting to ‘30’ seconds. In my experience, a short amount of time for this setting leads to student confusion when the ‘page’ flips to the sharing link.

I’d have the setting as ‘yes’ for ‘Show fullscreen when opened’ so that students can see all of the voicethread.

Press ‘save’.

That’s it! By sharing the URL you copied-and-pasted earlier, students can access the voicethread you’ve just created. If you forget this, you can access it by clicking on the ‘Embed’ button.

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Voki Instructions

1. Launch Internet Explorer or Firefox and go to www.voki.com.

2. Create an account with Voki before beginning to create your digital avatar.

3. Click Register:

4. Fill in your information and click Finish.

5. Click the Create button:

6. Begin customizing your character/backgrounds.

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7. When your character is ready, click on the button with the keyboard letter T.

8. Type your text in the box that appears. Make sure to select if you want a male or female

voice.

9. Alternatively, you can give your own voice to your voki. Click on the microphone

button.

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10. When this dialogue box appears, check Permit and then click on Close.

11. Click on RECORD and now record what you want to say. If you like your recording,

click on SAVE. If you don't like it, just record again.

12. Click on Backgrounds:

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13. Choose a Background and click Done.

14. Click on Players:

15. Choose a Player and click Done.

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16. Now you are ready to click on the Publish button shown below.

17. You will be prompted to save the file. Name your file and click on the Save button:

18. Enter your login information and click Login.

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19. After you Login, you will receive a message indicating your scene has been saved:

20. Now you are ready to embed your Voki on Blackboard. Select and copy the code that's

displayed for MySpace.

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21. Go to Control Panel in your Blackboard course page and click on the page where you

want to publish your voki (e.g. Announcements)

22. Click on Add Announcement:

23. Type the Subject of your Announcement.

24. In the message box, click on Toggle HTML Source Mode.

25. Right-click on your mouse and paste the code you copied from voki.com.

26. Scroll down to the bottom of your page and click Submit:

27. Congratulations! Your Voki will now be displayed for students to view:

Thanks to: http://www.inedotech.com/2009/11/voki.html http://www.inedotech.com/search/label/VoiceThread http://dotsub.com/ If you have any questions or feedback please email sklever@hct.ac.ae

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