E-Lectures and E-Quality

Last week's E-lecture was a bit of a different experience for me as I had a captionist type in real-time what the instructors and videos were verbalizing. Not only did this process up the quality of the lecture, but also the equality of it as well. Before I was spending the lectures scrutinizing over words and sentences that were either not clear or not as loud, losing focus and unable to take comprehensive and cohesive notes because much of the time I was working so hard to hear what was being said.

With the captionist I was able to sit back and enjoy the lecture a bit more because I could simply pull up a screen from the website where she was typing on her end, also listening to the class just as we were, but typing verbatim simultaneously. With this assistive technology I felt that I was able to understand the videos 100 percent better and participate in such a way that even though I wasn't sitting in the front of the class to read the professors lips, take visual cues, and ask questions, I was able to comfortably participate and understand all of what was being said.