Closed captioning at the happy hour this Thursday

[cvcalhoun]

[FONT=&amp]I just confirmed with Henry, the Zoom happy hour at 7:00 pm this Thursday, at which teams will be announced, will have closed captioning. Don’t forget, though, whether or not you require closed captioning, you need to register in advance at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0odu2gqDMqH9ZQ_PuNM81K8_26KguIspsV[/FONT][FONT=&amp] Once you do, you will get the Zoom link.[/FONT]

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[Nadine]

@cvcalhoun 203943 wrote:

[FONT=&quot]I just confirmed with Henry, the Zoom happy hour at 7:00 pm this Thursday, at which teams will be announced, will have closed captioning. Don’t forget, though, whether or not you require closed captioning, you need to register in advance at [COLOR=var(–blue-link)]https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0odu2gqDMqH9ZQ_PuNM81K8_26KguIspsV Once you do, you will get the Zoom link.
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One thing I’ve been wondering about is…. It looks like there’s only gonna be time for business at the happy hour. I was thinking I’d get myself a beer and say hi to people. Will there be time for zoom hanging out after the business?

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[cvcalhoun]

@Nadine 203945 wrote:

One thing I’ve been wondering about is…. It looks like there’s only gonna be time for business at the happy hour. I was thinking I’d get myself a beer and say hi to people. Will there be time for zoom hanging out after the business?

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There will be time (from 7:24 to 7:58) to socialize with teammates. You’d have to speak with Henry about whether there will be time for socializing with others.

[Henry]

Yes, we can leave the Zoom open for an extra 30 minutes after the official meeting is over.

Also, as of this morning, we have 118 people registered for the BAFS HH.

Henry

[BobCochran]

@cvcalhoun 203943 wrote:

[FONT=&]I just confirmed with Henry, the Zoom happy hour at 7:00 pm this Thursday, at which teams will be announced, will have closed captioning. Don’t forget, though, whether or not you require closed captioning, you need to register in advance at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0odu2gqDMqH9ZQ_PuNM81K8_26KguIspsV[/FONT][FONT=&] Once you do, you will get the Zoom link.[/FONT]

Hi Carol, thank you very much for letting us know this. I will decide by tomorrow night whether to register for Happy Hour or not. My experience with how WABA conducted captioning on Zoom for me was that they assigned one person to listen to the instructor and other class members and transcribe it all to text, in court reporting fashion. That is a tremendous workload for one person. I quickly felt sorry for my transcriber/captioner/stenographer. I’m a little worried that there will be just one person doing the actual listening and transcription for Happy Hour. So far there is one other person who has an interest in the closed captioning. I think that person is new to Freezing Saddles. If I’m assigned to a different team than the other deaf person, and sent to a different “breakout room”, then that one transcriber is going to be overwhelmed trying to transcribe for two different deaf people in two different breakout rooms. I’ve done a few years of Freezing Saddles and know what it is about. So perhaps it is a good idea to let the new person enjoy the Happy Hour with the benefit of all the captioning resources. It seems to be that I could show some courtesy to both the transcriber and the other deaf person if I don’t register, and just quietly wait for the team assignments to be published in text.

Thanks so much!

Bob

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