Stenograph University - Captioning III

Prerequisites
Demonstrate realtime shorthand writing performance of 225 wpm or higher with 95% or greater accuracy.

Completion of Captioning I (or author’s written waiver of this requirement)

Successful completion or concurrent enrollment in Captioning II (or author’s written waiver of this requirement)

Course contents

Author

Chris Crosgrove
Caption Colorado, L.L.C.
Manager of Recruiting and Training

In Captioning III, you have the opportunity to take the skills you learned in Captioning I & II and gradually build the writing expertise and stamina necessary to caption an entire broadcast. The course includes two 30-minute personalized writing skills evaluations written from unrehearsed streaming media and over 100 recorded broadcast practice segments covering news, weather, and sports of different lengths and levels of difficulty. Specialized vocabulary supplements for your ON-AIR dictionary are available as downloads and online flash cards.

You may also purchase an optional Enounce™ variable speed player software license from Stenograph or Enounce. This license allows you to vary the speed of your practice materials up or down from recorded levels.

Evaluations:

Preliminary and final personalized writing skills evaluations

Lesson Units:

• How to practice
• Broadcast practice sessions 1-16

Dictionary lists and study aids:

Specialized vocabularies and online vocabulary flash cards for MOV 001 through MOV 122

Access time
60 calendar days from first date of use.

CEUs
3.0 CEUs

Course price
$525.00
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Additional requirements
Appropriate captioning or CAT (computer assisted translation) software and stenowriter. See description.

Who benefits from this course
Graduate machine shorthand writing professionals who write realtime and are seeking to acquire the skills necessary to perform as a broadcast closed captioner.