Bam! Mr. Tarrou! In this video, I want to do two things. First of all, thank you.
I can't believe we're getting close to a hundred thousand subscribers.
That's something I never would have thought would have happened when I started this YouTube channel
just over four years ago.
Thank you for sharing this with your friends, your teachers, your you know, putting it out on Facebook and
Twitter, and all the other social media outlets. It really means a lot -
liking, subscribing, sharing,
uh, I already said "subscribing."
supporting the advertising, that's what keeps free YouTube channels like mine alive,
besides the fact that I just love teaching, and so do many other people out there.
You might find some educational channels on the right column, or the right margin of my YouTube page
that I feel very strongly about.
And there's many other good ones of course as well.
The second thing I wanna do is, besides just saying a huge thank you for all of your support,
is to actually ask for some help, and I hate asking for help, but over the last four and a half years,
I've produced over five hundred and sixty-five or more videos,
I've covered topics that involve all of the subjects that I've taught live in my classroom,
and now I'm extending that into Calculus 2 and such
beyond just 'cause I'm enjoying this process with YouTube so much.
But I can't continue to make new math lessons at a rate that I would like if I don't get some help
with closed captioning. YouTube has a feature now, that there's a community involvement, or that you guys
out there can help me close caption videos as a big community.
And that's what I'm gonna ask for. And in this video I'm going to show you how you could contribute
some closed captioning, just an entire video, or just in small pieces so that as a collective group, we can open
my videos up to hearing impaired, students that speak foreign languages where English is a second language.
You know can use Google Translate to take English subtitles, and you know, I know it's not perfect,
but translate it to other languages, or maybe you're in a foreign country and you speak German,
or French, or something like that, a language I don't speak.
And you can give me subtitles in your language.
Now, you can just jump ahead to the instructions on how to do that if you'd like,
but basically, here's the deal. If you're a regular subscriber, you're going to...
You probably have noticed that in the last year or so, my new lessons have been coming very, very slowly,
over months, a month, or a month and a half before another one is produced
if that might even be longer than that.
That's because I was getting a lot of requests to close caption my videos.
Now the reason why they're not closed captioned is because well, we've all seen
auto closed captions from YouTube, they're not very good
and I even tried with the, as I got...
Like as I said, my lessons now cover all the topics I cover in my class as well share with you all on YouTube.
So, as I extend my lessons into Calculus, I'm relearning and reviewing Calculus skills that I haven't seen
for twenty years. It felt really good to teach Calculus for the first time live in my school about three years ago.
I opened up this Calculus book I hadn't looked at in years, watched someone else's lessons, read the book,
and then do all that homework and rehone and relearn, dust off my old skills I learned
to get my math degree or my math education degree
and I wanna now extend that into Calculus 2 and Calculus 3, but over the last twelve months,
I've typed about a hundred and sixty closed captions and
a wonderful lady in India, student, and now a friend of mine,
Jegausa, she close captioned about seventeen or eighteen videos
and a couple of people in the U.S. had committed to listening to an entire video, like I do, and
basically type into a Word document a transcript for an entire video and then e-mail me that Word document
and then I could upload it and do a sort of auto timing feature and get closed captions out there.
But at this rate, in a year, that's amounted to a little over a hundred and seventy or so, or a hundred and eighty
something like that videos that have been closed captioned.
Well I have about five hundred and sixty something seven videos.
That would take like another three years.
I could type for three years straight, you know, besides of course actually teaching full-time which pays the bills
before I could post a brand new math lesson and you know, I am a math teacher.
I wanna help. I'm glad that I've opened a hundred and seventy or eighty of my videos so far to, you know,
hearing impaired and such people that can also benefit from my classes but,
I need some help, I can't do it all and so let me show you how to help me and I'm begging,
I'm pleading, please just even if you can do ten, twenty seconds of a lesson,
as a collective group, we can open up all of my math lessons so that everyone can learn from them,
not just those that speak English, or well you know, or that can hear.
So here's how we're gonna help.
Ok, so here we are; it's the homepage of my channel.
You want to help out. You want to do some closed captions.
Where do you go? You go to the video tab where all the videos are, right?
And when you go to videos, you can go from newest to oldest
or you can click this tab and go from most popular to least popular.
But, that is actually how I closed captioned my videos. I went from my most viewed
lessons and worked my way backwards. So pretty much everything here
except, ok, a little bit there... You'll find are already closed captioned
Well, if you, you know, want to start there and keep working your way backwards
or whatever!
if you find a video that interests you,
that has not been closed captioned yet - like my most recent video:
"Definite Integration by Trigonometric Substitution"
you can click on this video, that does not have a cc in the lower right-hand corner
and once it starts playing
and unless there is somekinda glitch or something you will see
uh, if you hit ... let me pause this quick...
you can click on the settings tab
and see that cc's are turned off...well, that's because I don't have any closed captions.
Click on that tab and here is the ability -- I've turned this on for community, uh
contributions for closed captions. Click 'Add Subtitles'
... this wonderful little window pops open ...
select language, which, I speak English and my videos are in English
uh, and you can...pretty sure you can select any video ... Oh! you see here that this video does have
some community input already for closed captioning, actually.
I did these as I was trying to figure out how to do this process...uh...
from your end. And, we can pick up now
that you can see if someone else contributes some subtitles...uh...
they're gonna be there for someone else to then come in and add a few more, and then when all of these are done
the Closed Captioned get opened up for community review.
Or, I can review them once the entire video is done. Again math talk doing talk to text does not work well.
That is why I had to type all of these. So I am scrolling through here.
I always want to drag those to the left and get all of this to run as a smooth continuous stream of Closed Captions
Here we go. So if I hit play.
Ah, ok... So references of theta. That is where the Closed Captions have stopped. Now I am going to
... by the way. You have key board short cuts. You can shift left and go back 5 seconds.
Shift right to go forward. Shift space is what you want to use the most to pause the video so you can
type. You can add a new line and such. I really never pay attention to those. I just always need to
pause the video because I am not really a good typist.
And by the way you can hit this settings tab and watch the video at normal, one-half, or one-quarter speed.
When I typed an entire transcript into a word document I would listen to my video at 1/4 speed
because that is about how fast I can type and I sound very interesting at that rate of speed.
But, this is going to.. You can see time stamps occurring as you enter the Closed Captions so this
would not be an area where you do an entire transcript.
So we are going to just listen at normal speed.
Back this up a little bit. I am just clicking and dragging this. And here we go. Play.
Ok, I can't write a definite integral with references... So I am going to come up here to type subtitle here and I am going to press enter.
So I think I said I cannot write a definite integral with references.
So let me click and drag this back just to listen.
Now do you see what happened there? As soon as I started typing the video paused.
That is because this box is selected and... you want to do this until there is two complete lines of text.
Once you are done you are going to hit enter. Just to make sure I said the right thing.
... or typed the correct thing.
So I have got about two complete lines of text. I can hit enter and that just put that down at the bottom of list current Closed Captions.
That is pretty much it. You can click and drag this backwards and forwards.
Hit play again.
Now I am going to hit shift space to keep going.
See I am not a great typist.
Back and hit play
What was that I just said?
Then enter.
So you can see this process, you know, is lengthy.
Now as you get used to this, certainly I can Close Caption a video much much faster than I used to when I got started.
But, this is how you can help me. Now if this is all you want to do, you can hit submit for review down here.
Ultimately when this entire video is Closed Captioned it will be opened up for review to again you all... the community
to make sure that there is nothing inappropriate and it is correct.
Then once enough people approve it, it will be published. Or, I can do that as well once the entire
video is done. So please if you would be willing to pay me back a little bit and
all of your fellow free educators for that matter and allow us to continue to make our lessons...
Allow me to continue to make my math lessons and help you extend into Calculus 2 or anything
else for that matter and help me Close Caption
it would be greatly greatly appreciated.
So BAM!!! Go do some Closed Captions... PLEASE:)
Before I go I just noticed one last thing. After you hit submit for review this window pops open and says are these done?
... or not.
No, let other keep working on them. Yes, they are ready to be reviewed.
So I guess if you got all the way through to the end of the video. Note: These subtitles need to be reviewed
by others before they are published. You won't see them right away.
So, of course we are going to hit "No" and let others keep working on them because well... they are not done.