Welcome to this Treasure Chest of Free Stuff.

The purpose of this blog is to highlight free downloadable programs and online resources of good quality that may be of value to educators and their students, especially those involved in special education.

Here’s a great resource for folks with hearing impairment as well as for language learners and their teachers.

dotSUB (online resource) Video is a powerful online medium that seems to be experiencing exponential growth. Now dotSUB makes online video accessible to an even wider audience. When you upload a video to dotSUB, you can then add subtitles simply by typing them into a straightforward interface.

dotSUB provides a tremendous service for anyone who is hearing impaired. But that’s not all! Once subtitles have been added to a video, the subtitles can be translated into any other language by anyone who is a bilingual translator.

dotSUB has made it easy to link and/or embed videos. Unfortunately, the embedding doesn’t yet work here in edublogs. For a terrific demonstration and explanation of dotSUB, check out the April 26 edition of Rocketboom. [NOTE: Once you get to Rocketboom, you have to click on the image before the video will start streaming.] Incidentally, Rocketboom is regularly sub-tititled and translated. Here’s a screenshot for a glimpse of what you get at dotSUB. (Click on the thumbnail to enlarge.)

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