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:
- To help teachers immersively experience and appreciate storytelling as a pedagogy
- To enable teachers to access, analyze and evaluate appropriate stories and related resources for language teaching-learning from various repositories
- Provide opportunities for collaborative resource creation, curation and sharing
- 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
- 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) | |
| 11:00 to 11:30 AM | Immersive audio-story demo | Anna's Extraordinary Experiments with Weather (English) | |
| 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM | Guidelines for Story Selection | Guidelines for Story Selection (English) | |
| 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) |
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| 2:30 – 3:15 PM | Story selection by participants | Storyweaver | |
| 3:15 to 3:30 PM | Story recording guidelines - Recording Instructions, usage guidelines for recorder app | Audio recorder - PlayStore link | |
| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 1:00 to 1:45 PM | LUNCH | ||
| 1:45 to 2:00 PM | Exploring sound effects and ambient sounds | ||
| 2:00 to 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 to 10:30 AM | Agenda for the day, recap of day 2, listening to some sample recordings by participants | |
| 10:30 to 11:00 AM | Filling meta-data forms for recorded stories | ||
| 11:00 AM to 1 PM | Participants’ select more stories, practice, receive peer feedback, fill meta-data forms and head for recording in turns | ||
| 1:00 to 1:45 PM | LUNCH | ||
| 1:45 to 3:00 PM | Participants’ select more stories, practice, receive peer feedback, fill meta-data forms and head for recording in turns | ||
| 2 – 3:30 PM | Continue resource creation, documentation in template and review
Small edits, re-recording parts, etc |
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| 3:00 to 4:00 PM | 1. Summing up - Recap of the workshop themes and experience sharing;
2. Feedback forms; 3. Vote of thanks; 4. Group photo. |