What are the necessary steps for a working reporter to retrain as a captioner?
1.) Perfect your realtime by taking courses or purchasing books 2.) Read for content the newspaper on a daily basis, also ” Time ” or ” Newsweek ” magazines, highlight words that you do not know and/or words that are not in your dictionary. 3.) Build your dictionary with these new words. For a quicker dictionary build, purchase programs that are on the market today. 4.) Practice, practice, and more practice in all forms of television programming. 5.) Monitor and/or participate in on-line forums for captioners. Read related articles published in NCRA’s Journal of Court Reporting and also in the Captioning Community of Interest section at www.ncraonline.org .6.) Attend captioning seminars, workshops and boot camps.
