A explanation and tour of captiontube.com. Information obtained by Justin Williams, Neumann EDU 597

1. Caption Tube
Justin Williams
7/22/12

2. What is Caption Tube
 Caption Tube is a web 2.0 tool that is used to add
captions to videos viewed on YouTube.
 CaptionTube: Home
 Caption tube provides a scaled time line that
makes it easier to cut and paste and insert
accurate closed captions to the video.

3. How does it work?
•First, you will upload a video from your computer or from YouTube that you
want to add captions to. You can take a prior video from YouTube because
that is a public website.

4. How does it work? Con’t
 Tutorial video on Caption Tube
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvFbP82cYcs

5. Logging In
 Log onto Captiontube.com
 Create a new username and password.
 ***If you already have a Google account, you can
use that username and password to access caption
tube. ***
 Next, you can load a video from your computer or
from YouTube and begin clicking away!

6. Pros
 A free tool that can be used to speak to your
classroom.
 You can include videos already produced on
youtube.com.
 Great for engaging students and audiences for
presentations
 Used to add additional information to the video
and mark important concepts.

7. Disadvantages
 Requires a lot of time to edit videos. Can require
the teacher a lot of additional time to incorporate.
 Sometimes, because the way the videos are
made, the captions may be a little off with timing
due to the chopiness of cutting.

8. Summary
 Overall, this is a useful and successful tool that
can be used for classrooms to relay additional
information.
 A lesson plan example can include listing the
class’ homework at the end of the video and the
students can copy the homework down.
 This tool is free and linked to your Google
account.

9. Thanks for taking the time to
learn about Captiontube.com
and please check it out!