Scenario_2

=Scenario 2=

A teacher decides to bring a homemade VHS videotape to show the class. The teacher believes it already has subtitles. The teacher also believes that even if there are no subtitles, the captionist in the room will be able to type fast enough to keep up with the video.

==**** The class begins with the video and the teacher realizes there are no subtitles and expects that the captionist will be able to keep up with the video, which again is not a realistic belief. The captionist does his/her best to keep up, but as happens frequently, the connection to the server is lost. The student cannot reconnect for a period of time and when they reconnect, they are behind and must read to catch up. However, they now do not have the facial cues to understand what point is being conveyed. In addition to this, having the video transcribed/captioned in real-time leads to misunderstandings and unclear concepts because of the delay involved between when the captionist hears the sentence and when he/she types it. There is also significant missing information (think about how hard it is to type a dialog of a conversation you hear on TV. Almost no one can keep up with real time conversations through text) **** ==