Service Delivery Options for Meeting Rural Needs: Thinking Outside the Box

Service Delivery Options for Meeting Rural Needs:

Thinking Outside the Box

Caption Colorado Remote Captioning and what it can mean for Rural or Remote access

From a California teacher

Many of my students have commented on the helpfulness of having streaming text in real time of the lecture.

- J. Marso, Grossmont College

About Caption Colorado

• Nation’s largest provider of captioning

• Captioning since 1991

• Full service including Captioning, Text Streaming, Transcription, Post-Production

• 150+ Realtime Captioners

• 50+ Offline Transcribers

• Annually: 150,000 Realtime Hours

• Daily: 500 Shows, Events, Calls, Classes

Caption ColoradoKnown for Realtime Captioning

• North Carolina www.ncrelaycc.com

• Arkansas www.arkansasrcc.com

• Tennessee www.tnrelaycc.com

• New Jersey www.njrelaycc.com

• Federal Relay www.fedrcc.us• Hawaii www.hawaiirelay.com Coming

soon

RCC – Conference Call Captioning

Free captioning is available in several states for phone calls, conference calls, online meetings, Webcasts and other “remote” events. Provided through State Relay:

What it takes to make it happen

Audio– Audio bridge to a phone jack– USB Wireless microphone (VoIP)– Cellular phone

Internet or Mobile Device– Low Bandwidth: no high-speed required– Laptop or PC: no special software– Projector and laptop combination– Blackberry– Smart phone

Delivery Possibilities• Any Internet-connected PC or Laptop

• Blackberry

• Smart Phone

• TV

• Online Meeting and Webcast

• Stadium Scoreboard

• Videotape

• DVD• Web Videos (Windows Media, Real, QuickTime, Flash)

Remote Realtime Captioning In Action

Font Color, Font Size

Background Color

Speed of Delivery

Highlighted New Text

Resizable Window

Each viewer can change:

Two Way Service

Dialogue between the student and their instructor or cohorts

Voiced by the captioner

Instant Transcript

Save transcript as text file or Web page

Save to your desktop immediately after event concludes

Distribute, share, post online – unlimited possibilities

Collaborative Tools

Caption Colorado is the preferred captioning provider for:

• WebEx• Wimba• Adobe Connect• Microsoft Live Meeting• Elluminate• EventBuilder• Centra• Polycom

Integrated captioning with WebEx

Integrated captioning with Adobe Connect

Integrated captioning

Wimba

Captioning integrated inside Wimba

O N L I N EUs ing Wimba to P rovide E qual Access of Information to Deaf and Hard of Hearing

S tudents in O n-line cours es

Dr. S am S like & Ms. P am B erman

The interpreter “window” can be moved to a variety of locations on the computer screen to be able to see the PowerPoint slides. Also, this window can be minimized or cancelled if necessary by the participant (not the instructor).

Interpreter

Captioner

Advantages of Remote Realtime• Anywhere, anytime Availability• Multiple Delivery Possibilities• Complete back-up and redundancy• Short notice scheduling and online ordering• Full Technical Support• Subject Matter Expertise• Transparency• Simultaneous viewing by multiple participants• Remote Classroom monitoring• Instant Transcript available for all students,

parents, administrators

Contact Us

Caption Colorado - Randy Holyfield - Troy Greenwood

www.captioncolorado.comwww.captionedtext.com

For more information:[email protected]

From an award-winning instructor

  I recommend Caption Colorado to anyone needing real-time captioning but especially to anyone new to working with this technology because their staff is ready to help you get set up step-by-step.  Thank you Caption Colorado for helping me provide this important, dynamic aspect to my teaching.

– J. Marso, Grossmont-Cuyamaca, CA

Innovator of the Year for 2007-2008 School Year