The Future of Video in Education
Michael Kessler2019-08-13T19:55:59+00:00The Future of Video in Education Every couple of years MyVRSpot hosts their Development Summit, with attendees ranging from Teachers and Principals to Directors of Technology, Communications Directors, and Superintendents. The multi-day event is designed as an open forum so attendees can share their thoughts and ideas. While part of the sessions focused on enhancing existing MyVRSpot services, the other sessions focused on exploring what the future of video in education might look like. The main goal of the Summits is to help us lay the ground work for future development, and this year’s [...]
Product Update: Automatically Publish Live Stream Recordings onto Your Webpage
Michael Kessler2019-07-30T21:53:53+00:00Automatically Publish Live Stream Recordings onto Your Webpage Do you ever imagine the day when your live stream recordings would auto-populate onto your webpage? Well, your dreams could come true with MyVRSpot’s new update to their Live Broadcasting and Video Showcase solutions. Within seconds, you could be on your way to freeing up more of your precious time. This feature is included with every Live Broadcasting and Video Showcase plan. Why would school districts add stream recordings to a Video Showcase? The answer is simple... to help your district or organization improve transparency--and now you can streamline this [...]
New Feature! Live Captioning with Live Streaming
Michael Kessler2019-09-05T15:15:07+00:00New Feature! Live Captioning with Live Streaming Are you looking for a way to make your live streams more accessible, inclusive, or ADA compliant? You can stop searching because this may be the solution you have been looking for--our newest feature, live closed captioning! This feature is included at no additional cost with any Live Broadcasting plans. To add live closed captioning to streaming is easy! If you or your district already subscribes to any of our Live Broadcasting plans, login and either watch this how-to video and follow along, or navigate to your streaming channel settings. If [...]
Live Stream with Closed Captioning to Automate ADA Compliance
Michael Kessler2019-09-18T14:34:04+00:00Live Stream with Closed Captioning to Automate ADA Compliance Your Live Stream recordings can be ADA compliant by having a Closed Caption file automatically added to the video recording before sharing it on your website. By using MyVRSpot’s Live Streaming and speech-to-text Closed Captioning services, you can enable this feature for a, if you will, "stream-lined" process. This feature is included at no additional cost with any of MyVRSpot's Closed Captioning and Live Broadcasting plans. Not only will the video recording of a Live Broadcast, of say a Board of Education meeting, be able to meet ADA compliant [...]
3 Tips to Improve the Accuracy of Closed Captioning When Using Speech-to-Text Captioning
Michael Kessler2019-09-05T17:08:10+00:003 Tips to Improve the Accuracy of Closed Captioning When Using Speech-to-Text Captioning Best Practices from MyVRSpot Is poor audio quality or a regional dialect making your speech-to-text closed captioning cumbersome? Spend less time editing your caption files with these solutions--which don’t include changing your regional dialect. Audio Quality The most important factor in the quality of a caption file is the audio of the video. The culprit of poor audio in a video is typically from not using an external microphone. In certain situations it is fine to use the audio input from your camera, but [...]
Essential Equipment for Live Broadcasting
Michael Kessler2019-09-05T15:58:02+00:00Essential Equipment for Live Broadcasting Best Practices from MyVRSpot Live streaming can feel intimidating because of the various equipment options and the wide range of costs associated with these options. Take a breath, because this article lists and explains the essential pieces of equipment you’ll need to broadcast. We’ll cover the range of minimalist equipment to professional equipment in the next four sections: Video Equipment Audio Equipment Encoders and Capture Devices and Internet Connection Video Equipment Necessary video equipment, or devices that can broadcast video and audio, may include: A [...]
