Google+ Hangouts are quickly becoming a very good way to communicate with lots of different people. They've recently opened up their Hangout OnAir Live function that lets anyone start a broadcast, via their hangout. Which includes professional Lower Thirds, and other fun stuff.
They also released an add-on for Live Captioning. Here's the post from Google+
Live Captioning
Some of the features include integration with Streamtext, for professional live captioning, or do it yourself where one person in the Hangout actually types the text. One feature I do not see is once the Hangout is finished, what happens to the captioned text, I assume it's been saved and will be included in the Youtube video of the Hangout, but my tests with the service was not able to determine that for certain. Either way this makes Google+ Hangouts much more accessible to many more people!
Patrick
Share this
Do you know somebody else who would find this post interesting or useful? Please forward it to them. Did somebody forward this post to you? Visit Teaching All Students and subscribe to receive posts for free. If you need a tutorial please visit this post: RSS Readers.
