CTE Mysuru English Resource Creation Workshop September 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 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 English

Agenda:

Day	Time	Activity	Resources
Day 1	10 – 10:30 AM	Settling down, inaugration, registration
	10:30 – 11:00 AM	Introductions, sharing objectives, expectation setting, group formation
	11:00 – 11:30 AM	Immersive demonstration followed by related activity	Annas extraordinary experiments with weather A book for puchku
	11:30 – 12 PM	Go through story selection checklist/guidelines Identify themes in the textbook;	Guidelines for resource creation
	12:00 – 12:30 PM	Go through the repositories and select 1 or 2 relevant stories for the theme chosen	Storyweaver Arvindguptatoys
	12:30 - 1	Configuring recording app (Recforge2) on mobile and audacity	RecForge II - Audio Recorder
	1:00 – 1:45	Lunch
	1:45 – 2:30 PM	Storytelling techniques exercises with situations (improv exercises)
	2:30 – 3 PM	Try out different voice modulations for the selected story and record it individually/in pairs/small groups
	3 – 4 PM	Present recorded trial story for discussion and feedback Group wise plenary presentations of 1 recording each for feedback and discussion
	4 – 5 PM	Exploring repositories in more detail and choosing stories
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 Half an hour recording slots start from 11:00 AM
	1:00 – 1:45	Lunch
	1:45 – 2	Listen to an exemplar audio story and reflect on their recording experience, what can be better, etc
	2 – 2:30 PM	Discuss resource template – resource details, meta data about resource (learning objectives, theme, grade), sound/music suggestions, technical instructions, creator name, ph. no.
	2:30 – 4:30 PM	2 groups make resources while other 2 review created resources Swap after an hour
Day 3	10:00 AM – 11 AM	Present in plenary and review (one per team)
	11 – 1 PM	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 on Google Forms
	4 – 4:30	Wrapping up, way forward