Captions for All: The Writing's on the Wall
Jena Fahlbush
PATINS Project
Jena Fahlbush has over 3 years of experience as a Specialist for the PATINS Project, a state education agency supporting Indiana public schools in creating and sustaining an equitable learning environment for every student. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education and is licensed to teach grades K-6. Jena has 9+ years experience as a special education paraprofessional, peer model preschool co-teacher, Title I teacher, and as a 3rd grade teacher. She is excited about sharing how the right tool and intentional design can change the game for a student.
Katie Taylor
PATINS Project
Katie Taylor is a specialist with the PATINS Project concentrating in the areas of deaf/hard of hearing and transition: primary age. She is a professionalized deaf educator with experience in a variety of settings including itinerant, teacher of record services, educational consulting, preschool, e-learning and K-12 classroom.
Session Description
A common question that we are frequently asked as specialists supporting access to the curriculum in all PreK-12 classroom environments is, “How can I provide captioned media and content for my students?” In each request we have found a unique situation from needing to add captions to the morning high school announcements to providing captioned media for a student with this accommodation written into his or her IEP. Often overlooked in each scenario is that captioning has been proven to improve attention, memory, language acquisition, access to content, vocabulary, and level of comprehension for almost all students, not only those requiring them.
Fortunately, we now live in a quick-changing, digital world that provides a variety of free tools to create and curate captioned content, allowing us to create inclusive, language-rich environments for all of our students.
Through the lens of Universal Design for Learning, this session will guide attendees through the hands-on exploration of free tools, apps, websites, and built-in software features found to be most effective for implementation within each of the UDL guidelines - engagement, representation, and action and expression. The range of tools to be explored will include options for curating quality captioned media like EdPuzzle, captioning pre-existing YouTube videos using Amara, captioning on the fly with Microsoft PowerPoint, and creating original captioned content with apps like FlipGrid and Apple Clips.
Learning Outcomes
First Learning Objective: Describe at least three educational benefits for implementing captioned media and content in the classroom.
Second Learning Objective: Identify at least three tools for creating captions in the classroom.
Third Learning Objective: Describe one example for how captioned media & content can support facilitation of each guideline of UDL - engagement, representation, and action and expression.
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