John Denver Song Makes Me Think of Deaf/Hard of Hearing Children

Posted on November 24th, 2008 by DeafMom
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I spent the afternoon playing around over at Overstream, learning how to add captions to a video.  I figured that it was time to learn, especially since Stephen Hopson and Glenda Watson Hyatt will be joining me to present at SOBCon’09 and we’ll be talking about web accessibility.

I selected a John Denver video, Children of the Universe, since I know that song by heart.  But there was another reason for me to choose that song:  it always makes me think of deaf and hard of hearing children.  How different we all are, yet we are all brothers and sisters.  As different as we are, we make up one universe. 

“To understand that life is more than always choosing sides.”

It’s captioned. Enjoy!

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5 Responses to “John Denver Song Makes Me Think of Deaf/Hard of Hearing Children”

  1. Stephen Hopson // Nov 25, 2008 at 6:36 am

    Congrats on learning how to do this captioning feature. See? Not hard!

    Now all we need to do is convince the rest of the blogging world that they can do it too.

    Stephen Hopsons last blog post..End of the Week Gratitude Theme #53

  2. Glenda Watson Hyatt // Nov 26, 2008 at 1:01 pm

    Great job, Karen! I hadn’t heard that song before. Definitely embraces diversity. Looking forward to meeting you in Chicago!

  3. Jim // Nov 27, 2008 at 9:47 am

    John Denver is one of my favorites. Happy Thanksgiving :)

    Jims last blog post..Happy Thanksgiving and Thoughts

  4. Bill // Dec 1, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    I added your video to my video collection “The Captioned Internet”

    http://billc.vodspot.tv/watch/1817958-children-of-the-universe-john-denver-captioned

  5. Karen Putz // Dec 2, 2008 at 9:55 am

    @Stephen
    At first, I was really overwhelmed, but once I got the hang of it, it was easy!

    @Glenda It sure does embrace diversity– pretty much the same way John Denver did.

    @Jim John Denver is probably the ultimate favorite for me– I think I’ve memorized about 90% of his 300+ songs.

    @Bill Wow, I’ve been added to the Bill Creswell Hall of Fame! :)

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