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Revision as of 12:39, 29 December 2023
Background
The Department of State Educational Research and Training (DSERT), Karnataka in collaboration with IT for Change (ITfC) has piloted the program ‘Integrating Digital Story-Based Pedagogy in Language Education’ in 4 CTE’s – Mysuru, Chitradurga, Belagavi and Gulbarga in 2023-24.
As part of this program, ITfC has been working with the government Colleges for Teacher Education (CTEs) to conduct workshops focusing on creating rich audio story-based resources by government higher primary school teachers. The 1st set of workshops focused on story narration and recording and over 220 high quality audio stories have been recorded in English, Kannada, Urdu and Marathi. the 2nd set of (this) workshop would be focusing on enhancing and productionising these recorded audio stories with sound and music effects.
Objectives of the workshop
- Productionising the narrated audio stories to make them available for language teachers
- Enriching the "Sri Aluru Venkata Rao Language Lab" OER resources repository for language teaching-learning
- To help teachers to explore FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) tools for resource creation
Teachers information form
Click here to fill the teachers information form.
Agenda of the workshop
Session name | Time | Session details | Resources |
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DAY – 1 | |||
Inauguration and Introduction | 10:00-11:30 | * Inauguration Ceremony
* Overview of the Workshop Agenda and Objectives * Brief on the Previous Workshop (Resource Creation) |
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Demo of Exemplar | 11:45-12:30 | * Playing Exemplar Audio
* Discussion about the Audio with Teachers |
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12:30-1:00 | * Listening to Teachers' Recorded Audio Stories from the previous workshop | ||
Introducing audio editing | 2:00-4:30 | * Creating the Main Resource Folder
* Importing first Audio as Project (for the practice) * Saving the Project with Proper Naming * Basic Editing Practice on the Audio * Basic Interface of Application – menu, Zoom In/Out, Track * Understanding of basic functionalities * Understanding Stereo and Mono tracks |
Working with Audacity |
Distributing audio files | 4:30-5:00 | * Assigning the stories to the teachers
* Listening to all the assigned audio stories and note the points on required modifications |
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DAY – 2 | |||
Importance of FOSS in education | 10:00-10:45 | * Announcing the decided group with respective ITfC Resource Persons
* Importance of FOSS in education |
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Audio Editing - Level 1 | 10:45-12:15 | * Teachers need to start work with the 1st audio story
* Import audio and saving the project in the assigned sub-folder * Use basic editing features –Based on the requirement use trim and other editing features (silence, copy paste) to clean up the audio based on the template. |
Basic audio editing in Audacity |
Audio Editing - Level 2 | 12:15-1:00 | * Adjusting the volume in the audio
* Reducing disturbance in the audio |
Adjusting the volume |
Audio Editing - Level 2 | 2:00-2:30 | * Exporting the project to the audio format
* Changing the voice in the audio based on the requirement |
Saving and exporting the project |
Introducing audio repository | 2:00- 4:00 | * Exploring the music repository (Story folders and Audio repository)
* Working with multiple tracks in the audio * Increasing or decreasing the amplitude of audio * Aligning the music or sound effect on the track |
Adding multiple tracks |
Discussion and exporting audio | 4:00-5:00 | * Any other effects as needed (fade in/out, reverb, echo etc)
* Exploring the music outside the repository (if needed) |
Fade in/out effects |
DAY – 3 | |||
Principles of OER | 10:00:11:00 | * Understanding of OER and its importance in education
* Understanding and updating of audio Metadata |
A video about OER |
Plenary review –
Level 1 |
11:00-11:45 | * Few teachers presentation of their 1st audio resource in a larger group
* Other teachers resource presentation in the smaller group |
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Working on the
first audio |
11.45 – 1.00 | * Edit 1st audio based on teachers feedback
* Exporting the final version of first audio with metadata |
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Working on audio file | 2:00-5:00 | * Start working on 2nd audio
* Using basic editing feature to clean up the audio and export it. * Adding the sound elements in the 2nd audio * Exporting the final version of 2nd audio with metadata |
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DAY – 4 | |||
Working on audio file | 10:00-12:00 | * Work on the second audio and finalise if required
* Teachers presenting the 2nd audio resource in plenary to get the feedback from others |
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Working on audio file | 12:00-1:00 | * Editing 2nd audio based on the feedback | |
Distributing and working on next audio files | 2:00-5:00 | * Start working on the 3rd audio | |
DAY – 5 | |||
Editing the audio | 10:00-1:00 | * Exporting final version of 3rd audio with metadata | |
Exploring an application | 2:00-3:00 | * Learn page, tutorials | |
Way forward | 3:00-4:00 | * Assignment | |
* Way forward | |||
* Feedback |
Resources
Technology Resources
Resource | Link | Purpose |
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Story Repository (Storyweaver) | Storyweaver | One of the largest story repositories which allows anyone to download, translate and create stories |
Audacity handout | Audacity handout | A detailed user manual page about audacity (by IT for Change) |
Audacity video tutorials | Tutorial videos | Video tutorial series on variety of tools in Audacity (by IT for Change) |
Audacity official site | Audacity official manual | Official site which keeps you updated on newer versions, tools and features |
OER audio repositories
From the below table you can find quality OER music and sound effects to reuse it in your project
1 | Bensound | Bensound |
2 | Soundbible | Soundbible |
3 | Freesound | Freesound |
4 | Pixabay | Pixabay |
5 | Wikimedia common | Wikimedia audio |
6 | Chosic | Chosic |
Workshop photos
1 | Click here to see the Mysuru workshop album. | ![]() |
2 | Click here to see the Belagavi workshop album. | ![]()
Workshop feedbackTo fill the workshop feedback form click here |