Orientation Session on Audio Resource Creation for Volunteers

Background

IT for Change has been working with the Department of State Educational Research and Training (DSERT) and Government Colleges for Teacher Education (CTEs) to conduct workshops focusing on creating rich audio story-based resources by government higher primary school teachers. The volunteering work will involve creating additional high quality story-based audio resources in multiple languages. The project will focus on story narration and recording by the volunteers.

Session Objectives

• Briefing volunteers about the program objectives and setting expectations
• Sharing story narration and recording guidelines
• Discussing other project specifics

Session Agenda

Session name	Time	Session details	Resources used
Introduction	14:30-14:40	* Introducing IT for Change * Brief overview of the project and session agenda
Project Specifics - I	14:40-15:00	* Project Overview * Story Selection Guidelines * Story Narration Guidelines * Sample Story Narration	1. Volunteer Orientation Slide-deck 2. Story Selection Guidelines 3. Recording Exemplars (EN and KN)
Project Specifics - I	15:00-15:15	* Story Recording Guidelines	1. Story Narration and Recording and Guidelines 2. Guidelines for recording a good audio with minimal equipment (video)
Way Forward	15:15 - 15:20	* Next steps in the process - Story for sample recording	1. Sample Story PDF (English) 2. Sample Story PDF (Kannada)
Q&A and Closing	15:20-15:30	* Answering queries (if any) and closing

Resources

Technology Resources

Resource	Link	Purpose
Tape-a-Talk Voice Recorder	Download Link (Android), In-built Recorder App can be used for iOS	For recording stories through your smartphone