While you were sleeping

I have been checking out ways that digital video is going to change our lives as language teachers. First, I learned about rocketboom, just because I was in FLTEACH last September and a list member had noticed this video interview in French about podcasting, done by the anchor of Rocketboom, Joanne Colan. Well  I was very interested in the video, so  I went back and found it in the coolest archives I have ever seen. (As you read my blog, you’ll see I am given to hyperbole.)

 Anyway, I went back to Rocketboom on April 26, when Joanne was talking about dotsub.com. This software allows you to subtitle an already made  digital video  in the language of your choice. I got to thinking about it as a nifty tool for languages because you can write target language captions for any video you or students make or  you can get the permission from authors of other videos. I hope you’ll share your thoughts about how this captioning tool can be useful to us.