CRC 150 - Intro to Realtime Tech

1. Conduct basic care and maintenance of the electronic writer
   1. Set up writer and related hardware for realtime
   2. Make machine key adjustments
   3. Adjust stroke depth
   4. Identify available sources for customer service and support
2. Summarize habits of basic care and maintenance of realtime hardware and software
   1. Explain proper order for connecting to power and powering up
   2. Compare options for protecting computer equipment (e.g. surge protectors, warranties, support plans)
   3. Discuss and perform, as needed,  software/hardware installs and updates
   4. dentify when tech support should be contacted
   5. List support contact information for writer, computer, internet, and all reporting software
3. Survey computer terminology and computer operating systems for improved technical literacy
   1. Define basic computer and realtime/computer-aided transcription terms
   2. List operating systems
   3. Apply skills in a Windows-based operating system
   4. Explore internet applications
   5. Recall Windows and CAT file types applicable to the court reporter (e.g. .doc, .ecl, .not, mp3, jpeg, RTF, ASCII, PDF, etc.)
   6. Use terminology correctly in class discussions
4. Develop, with guidance, appropriate speaker identification practices
   1. Select, with instructor prompts,  appropriate speaker identifications to be used
   2. Verify, with instructor prompts, correct dictionary entries
   3. Organize Speaker Table in Computer-Aided Transcription (CAT) software with instructor prompts
   4. Make use of visual aids developed under instructor guidance for remembering speaker identifications/party and witness names
   5. Write speaker identifications with instructor prompts when writing realtime
5. Analyze good realtime dictionary management
   1. Create job dictionaries
   2. Add new entries
   3. Edit entries in existing dictionaries
   4. Choose job dictionaries in the correct sequence
   5. Define untranslates, as appropriate, to the main or designated job dictionary
6. Practice producing professional transcripts using features for reading, translating, editing, and delivery
   1. Write a variety of transcript job projects
   2. Read steno notes files from writer
   3. Select appropriate include files
   4. Edit include files
   5. Translate steno notes from files
   6. Edit transcript using software commands, correct formatting, and paragraphing where needed
   7. Understand proofreader marks for paragraphing, striking, insertion, and capitalization
   8. Share edited transcript with assigned classmate proofreader
   9. Review proofreader suggestions for accuracy before accepting/rejecting changes
   10. Run spell-check
   11. Create files in various formats (e.g. ASCII, PDF) for delivery
7. Maintain and archive dictionary and settings files
   1. Set, with guidance, appropriate settings for margins, paragraphs, and AI tools within the CAT software
   2. Locate files to save
   3. Archive with date-specific names
8. Examine the role of the CART or realtime broadcast captioning reporter
   1. Discover the equipment, hardware, and software used by the CART reporter through research or through attention to a guest speaker
   2. Survey the equipment, hardware, and software used by the realtime broadcast captioner through research or attention to a guest speaker
   3. View the setup used by a CART reporter and/or realtime broadcast captioner through research or attention to guest speaker
   4. Discuss CART environment and consumer expectations
   5. Discuss broadcast captioning environment and consumer expectations