This article is about the new developments in web based multimedia such as making it accessible to those who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired by applying closed captions and etc. It talks about quicktime and captioning, quicktime and audio description, microsoft SAMI, the W3C's synchronized SMIL, and the benefits of accessible movie clips. There's a section for each of these and goes into detail about how the closed captions are included in quick time and movieplayer in which they can be added to the movie as well as descriptions. The other concept is audio descriptions being added to movie clips which is directed towards those who are blind. The article goes into a program called SAMI in which the captioning file contains timecode information which corresponds to elapsed time in a multimedia source file, such as audio, video or animation. It also talks about the benefits of accessible movie clips for the deaf and hard of hearing, and blind such as being about to follow a movie, people to find a specific spot in the movie as well as being able to see if the movie is worth the time to watch. Research has shown that these programs can help reinterate vocabulary in the classroom as well as the can be stop and started again so if theres a question the teacher would like to work on with students and etc.
I think this article is good for understand how this type of technology can be used in the classroom and for those who are imparied in some way. It really shows our willingness to help those who cannot hear or see be able to watch movies, for students to learn and etc.
http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/Us_Eu/conf/csun_99/session0058.html
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Using web-based multimedia in classrooms that have students with impairments. Pretty simple concept...but I never thought of it. How helpful it could be for a deaf student...what a great idea. Great Job!!
I never thought of multimedia being good for the deaf, hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired. i think that it should be used more for them. It is a great concept for the impaired. Very simple and straight forward.
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