CTE Belagavi English Resource Creation Workshop

About the Program

With the aim of enriching students’ language learning experiences by leveraging the power of storytelling as a pedagogical tool along with the newer possibilities that the digital medium offers, the Department of State Educational Research and Training (DSERT) and the Colleges of Teacher Education (CTEs) across Karnataka collaborated with IT for Change to pilot the program ‘Integrating Digital Story-Based Pedagogy in Language Education’ during 2023-24 for government higher primary school teachers. The program is being implemented as part of the departments' Sri Aluru Venkata Rao Bhasha Labs initiative in four Colleges of Teacher Education (CTEs) in Karnataka - Mysuru, Chitradurga, Belagavi and Gulbarga.

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	10:00 – 10:30 AM	Settling down, Inauguration, Registration
	10:30 – 11:00 AM	Overview of the program, discussing the workshop agenda, objectives and expectations from participants	Introductory Slide-deck (English) Introductory Slide-deck (Hindi)
	11:00 to 11:30 AM	Immersive audio-story demo
	11:45 AM to 1:00 PM	Guidelines for Story Selection and Narration
	1:00 to 1:45 PM	LUNCH
	1:45 – 2:30 PM	How to make story narration engaging? - Storytelling/ read-aloud techniques exercises with situations (improv exercises)
	2:30 – 3:15 PM	Story selection by participants
	3:15 to 3:30 PM	Story recording guidelines - Recording Instructions, usage guidelines for recorder app
	3:30 to 4:00 PM	Summing up for the day, recap of themes covered
Day 2	10 AM – 10:30 AM	Recap and Agenda for the day
	10:30 – 11:30 AM	1. Practicing/ trying out different voice modulations for the selected stories. 2. Story narration in small groups and peer feedback.
	11:45 AM to 1:00 PM	Story creation and Presentation by participants 1. Participants write a story/ folk story/ re-imagine a textbook story – either individually or collaboratively; 2. Peer review of created stories
	1:00 to 1:45 PM	LUNCH
	1:45 – 2:00PM	Exploring sound effects and ambient sounds
	2:00 – 3:50 PM	Participants’ select more stories, practice, receive peer feedback and head for recording in turns
	3:50 to 4:00 PM	Summing up for the day - Recap of topics covered on Day 2
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.