Adding subtitles with UNIVERSAL SUBTITLES

Tonight, my husband asked me to subtitle a youtube video he would like to show during a talk so it was time to try a site I've heard about recently: UNIVERSAL SUBTITLES.

It's incredibly easy. You sign up, click CREATE, ADD SUBTITLES, watch pieces of 8 seconds and start typing the translation, you then sych it , review it, and can share it via facebook, twitter, send it to people via e-mail or even grab the embed code for publishing.

BOMBAYTV - creating subtitles for Bollywood films

I had already heard of BombayTv via Ozge Karaolglu and Russell Stannard but hadn´t had a chance to try it myself. This morning I selected a scene and wrote some subtitles to it. You can also use the text-to-speech feature or record your own voice to dub the scene.

My TRIAL

Great tool to use w/ students.

How can we use this site with students?

• The teacher can create subtitled videos to contextualize the content of a lesson.
• Show a scene to the whole class so that students in pairs can create a dialogue for it. The teacher monitors the activity helping out and correcting when necessary. Show the scene again so that pairs of students can dub the scene. The class decides which was the best dialogue created in class.
• In the computer lab, ask students to create subtitles for a scene they select. As they finish, students send the link to the teacher via e-mail so that it is published in the class blog.
• In the classroom, show a scene to students. Then, with the wholeclass, brainstorm a dialogue for the scene. Students copy the dialogue. Pairs of students rehearse the dialogue. The teacher selects a pair of students to record teh dialogue and adds it to the scene. Show the recorded dialogue to the class.
• Ask students to record themselves dubbing a scene for homework. The text should have vocabulary learned recently. As they finish it, the video should be sent to the teacher via e-mail to be published in the class blog. These videos can be used in future classes for listening comprehension.
  

DOTSUB.com (video captions)

I´ve found this site from an e-mail sent by Nik Peachey in the Learning with Computers community in response to someone who was looking for a tool to add captions to a video they had made. Well, with http://dotsub.com not only can you add captions to a video you´ve created but also add captions to any video from the net and host it there. It provides you with a link and an embed code of the captioned video as well. This is a video I got from dotsub about wikis. At the bottom of the player you can select what language you want to read the captions in.Watch and learn.