CELT RIESI Language Workshop

One-day workshops on "Audio materials development" for participants of the CELT program (different batches) of RIESI - July 27, 2019, August 24, 2019, September 8, 2019, January 25, 2020, March 1, 2020, March 12, 2021.

Objectives of the workshop

 * 1) Exploring new digital methods for language learning. Exploring Audacity FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) tool to create rich language resources for use in a language lesson
 * 2) Learning recording and editing audio using Audacity.  Making your audio resource richer by using multiple audio files (background music)
 * 3) Introduce the philosophy of creating and adapting existing audio resources (Open Educational Resources created with FOSS)
 * 4) Publishing created audio resource on a public repository for use of all teachers

Pedagogical principles (Principles for recording conversations amongst two or more people)

 * 1) Relevant to the student school community home context.
 * 2) Meaningful. Richness, variety.
 * 3) Allowing scope for background music, sounds.
 * 4) Appropriate level of language complexity.

Technology rules (Rules for getting a good quality recording using your mobile phone or laptop)
Download this checklist from here
 * 1) Script need to be ready before recording and detailed
 * 2) Find out a less noisy and closed place to record
 * 3) Turn off fans and air conditioners, use curtains or thick cloth to cover windows
 * 4) Don't use computer which makes noise
 * 5) Keep your Mic at-least 15cm away from your mouth
 * 6) Use good head phones –
 * 7) Audio jacks are working fine
 * 8) Mic input is working
 * 9) Headphones should support audacity or any other audio tools
 * 10) Input level should be less than 100%
 * 11) Do test recording to check quality. Satisfy yourself before final recording

Resources

 * 1) Some ideas (non-fiction) for developing audio resources. (Stories are powerful and effective. They are also available in plenty - identify local stories, folk stories etc). In addition, non-fiction audio resources can be quite thought-provoking and creativity enhancing for older students.
 * 2) Audio resources created in the RIESI workshops
 * 3) January 2021 CELT Audio album
 * 4) December 2020 CELT Audio album
 * 5) November 2020 Secondary school teachers album
 * 6) June 2020 ELTA course album
 * 7) January 2020 CELT participants album
 * 8) September 2019 - CELT participants album
 * 9) August 2019 - CELT participants album
 * 10) July 2019 - CELT participants album
 * 11) Audio's  created by IT for Change  - Tabla Bhols and Flute resources
 * 12) Swaras for schools - combining English rhymes with Indian tunes
 * 13) Karadi tales - Very rich and brilliant audio stories based on Indian stories and using Indian tunes... must  listen to all
 * 14) Karadi tale - Blue Jackal by Naseeruddin Shah
 * 15) Crickematics with Rahul Dravid
 * 16) Monkey on a Fast with Sanjay Dutt

Technology resources

 * 1) Install Audacity application in your computer
 * 2) Download different background music's to your computer
 * 3) Checklist for recording good audio clip
 * 4) Fill this form, with your topic for audio resource creation in the course
 * 5) What is copyright and what is OER - See short video
 * 6) Watch this video to know upload your audio files on SoundCloud audio repository.

Online OER audio repositories

 * 1) WikimediaCommons
 * 2) BenSound
 * 3) Soundible
 * 4) FreeSound
 * 5) SoundCloud

Reading materials on ELT

 * 1) Krashens hypotheses for SLA (Second Language Acquisition)
 * 2) Multi-linguality, education and harmony - Prof Rama Kant Agnihotri (Multi-lingualism, as a resource for ELT
 * 3) Multi-linguality_and_the_teaching_of_English_in_India - Prof Rama Kant Agnihotri
 * 4) National Curriculum 2005 Framework Position Paper on Teaching English
 * 5) National Curriculum 2005 Framework Position Paper on Teaching of Indian Languages
 * 6) Digital Storytelling, an ICT-based method of co-constructing and transacting curriculum

Additional resources

 * 1) Rich recitations
 * 2) Karadi tales - Very rich and brilliant audio stories based on Indian stories and using Indian tunes... must listen to all
 * 3) Karadi tale - Blue Jackal by Naseeruddin Shah
 * 4) Crickematics with Rahul Dravid
 * 5) Monkey on a Fast with Sanjay Dutt
 * 6) https://www.swarasforschools.com/
 * 7) Poetry online
 * 8) Poems online (10,000 poems) available for download
 * 9) Access poems and upload your poems All Poetry
 * 10) Poetry foundation
 * 11) Great speeches
 * 12) I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King .Jr

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