Why am I writing this personal entry? Well, it is not an attempt to gain any sympathy. It attempts to show what is possible if a clear intention and goal serve the learner's needs. In May of 2022 just near the end of another fantastic school year, I do not remember what happened. But, I was unable to finish the school year and was unable to teach the following year. Why? On May 21st, 2022, I fell down a flight of 16 stairs (luckily carpeted) from the 2nd to 1st story of our home. I was found at the bottom of the stairs. I was found foaming at the mouth. This would lead to a 2-month hospital stay which included an induced coma because my seizures would not stop, several rounds of lumbar punctures, and relearning basic physical movements like something as simple as being able to roll in the hospital bed. Simply put, when I was admitted to the hospital, I was diagnosed as being “critically ill.” Please take a moment and read those words: critically ill. They are not terms that are
When I learned about Closed Captioning in Google Slides from Kasey Bell & Matt Miller, I was excited but realized I wouldn't be using it much because I use Pear Deck for my Slides presentations. Well, it turns out that we can all use Closed Captioning in our Pear Deck Presentations as well!
If you're not aware of the new captioning feature in Slides, it can be turned on from the presenter menu in presentation mode.
You do need to have a microphone either external or internal turned on for the feature to work. It presents live text of what is being heard by the mic to the screen.
Now to access this same feature in Pear Deck, it's pretty simple. You just have to click at the right time. In the video below, you'll see that if you click on the CC in the Slides Presenter bar that pops up as the presentation loads into Pear Deck, you'll get the lived closed captioning! As you can see the CC is not yet perfect and I was using my internal computer mic. But it's pretty cool!
One additional thing to note, if you haven't added the Chrome extension for the Pear Deck Power-up, get on it by CLICKING HERE! It allows you to present GIFs and YouTube clips within your Pear Deck (including any video options you add to the YouTube clips like autoplay when slide loads or specific start and stop times).
This isn't working for me. When I hit present in peardeck, it just loads up the show in peardeck and does not give me the menu at the bottom of the screen that would allow me to turn on captioning.
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