Resides in: Sunrise, Fla. Position: Freelance court reporter Member since: 1987 Graduated from: Southern Business College Theory: StenEd Favorite gadget: I can’t live without my…
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If you’re considering taking NCRA’s Realtime Systems Administrator workshop, you might have some basic questions about the certificate program. As a committee, we’ve addressed some…
By Gayle Hays Driving my car the other day here in Seattle, it occurred to me that I had graduated from Kenosha Technical Institute…
NCRA’s switch to online testing for the skills portion of the RPR, RMR, CRR, and CBC/CCP/CRC comes with some differences and some similarities. Here’s an…
High security, audio glitches, and sometimes difficult accents didn’t hinder the NCRA members who had the opportunity to caption the events held during Pope Francis’…
NCRA launched the online continuing education system on June 1 as a way for our members to more easily submit their continuing education credits. For…
In honor of National Punctuation Day, which is celebrated every year on Sept. 24, NCRA asked members of the Proofreading Advisory Council for their best…
NCRA has issued a call for presentations for its 2016 Firm Owners Executive Conference, being held April 17-19 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the…
International Week of the Deaf, an initiative of the World Federation of the Deaf, is being celebrated this week by the global deaf community. The…
By Merilee Johnson Do you get nervous when you walk into a room of strangers and having clients stare at you, as if trying to…
A Sept. 13 article in The Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.) discussed the responsibilities, pros and cons, and opportunities for being a court reporter. The…
On Sept. 3, NCRA and several captioning vendors submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission on three issues connected to the implementation of the caption…
In the e-seminar, Online skills testing — See it for yourself, Marybeth Everhart discusses important testing procedures for online testing. Everhart, national marketing manager at…
The Sept. 2 edition of Word of Mouth, a show on New Hampshire Public Radio, interviewed Gavin Jenkins, a freelance writer for Vice who wrote…
1CapApp announces a maintenance release that includes two minor enhancements and fixes five known issues for 1Connect. The enhancements include putting a hard stop value that…
As the Sept. 30 educational cycle deadline looms, NCRA members are looking for ways to earn last-minute credits. For these reporters, the National Court Reporters…
The informative vendor e-seminar Syllables: Count on it! teaches court reporting students and instructors how to accurately count syllables to help with dictation. The e-seminar…
By Katherine Schilling Staying motivated is probably one of the hardest things for a student to do while in court reporting school. The constant testing…
NCRA member Cassandra Caldarella was interviewed about her career as an official court reporter in Orange County, Calif., in an article posted Aug. 26 on…