CTE Kalaburagi Urdu Resource Creation Workshop November 2023

Objectives:

1. To help teachers immersively experience and appreciate storytelling as a pedagogy
2. To enable teachers to access, analyze and evaluate appropriate stories and related resources for Urdu language teaching-learning from various repositories
3. Provide opportunities for collaborative resource creation, curation and sharing
4. To help them explore FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) tools and new digital methods to record audio-visual resources for language teaching and learning
5. To support the teachers in building a repository with contextual multilevel, multi-modal digital resources in Urdu

Agenda:

Day	Time	Activity	Resources
Day 1	10 – 10:30 AM	Settling down, inaugration, registration Ice-breaker!
	10:30 – 11:00 AM	Introductions, sharing objectives, expectation setting, group formation	Slide deck
	11:00 – 11:30 AM	Immersive demonstration followed by related activity	Surkh Barasathi
	11:30 – 1:00 PM	story selection checklist/guidelines Storytelling techniques exercises with situations (improv exercises) Demo of kannada story Audio and discussion.	Guidelines for resource creation Slide deck Video
	1:00 – 1:45	Lunch
	1:45 – 2:30 PM	Go through the repositories and select 1 or 2 relevant stories for the theme chosen	Story Weaver
	2:30 – 4:00 PM	Try out different voice modulations for the selected story. Narrate it individually/in pairs/small groups and give peer feedback.
	4 – 5 PM	Initial recordings Configuring recording app on mobile	Tape -a- talk
Day 2	10 AM – 10:30 AM	Settling down, recap of day 1
	10:30 AM – 1 PM	Deciding who plays which character, script annotation, dialogues, practice Recording slots start from 11:00 AM
	1:00 – 1:45	Lunch
	1:45 – 2:00PM	Listen to an exemplar audio story and reflect on their recording experience, what can be better, etc
	2:00 – 4:30 PM	Continue with recording
Day 3	10:00 AM – 11 AM	Demo of one final Audio story - pre and post editing
	11 – 1 PM	Discuss resource template – resource details, meta data about resource (learning objectives, theme, grade), sound/music suggestions, technical instructions, creator name, ph. no. Continue resource creation, documentation in template and review
	1:00 – 1:45	Lunch
	1:45 – 2	Energiser
	2 – 3:30 PM	Continue resource creation, documentation in template and review Small edits, re-recording parts, etc
	3:30 – 4:30	Resource submission
	4 – 4:30	Wrapping up, way forward, Record teachers Feedback.