CTE Belagavi English Audio story editing Workshop 2024-25

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 Karnataka through 4 CTE’s – Mysuru, Chitradurga, Belagavi and Gulbarga from 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, CRPs and BRPs. The 1st set of workshops focused on story narration and recording and the second set of workshops will focus on enhancing and productionizing these audio stories by adding 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

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Agenda of the workshop

Day	Time	Things to Cover
Day 1	10:00 – 11:00	Program introduction
	11:00 – 11:15	KK installation
	11:15 – 12:00	Audacity basic features/FOSS, OER
	12:00 – 1:00	Folder creation & Basic editing on the sample short audio
	2:00 – 2:15	Story allocation + go through the editing guideline
	2:15 – 4:00	Basic editing (trim) of allocated story
	4:00 – 4:30	L1 – Explain Save project and export audio to WAV Working on Amplify – slider, envelope and amplify (Save project)
Day 2	9:30 – 10:00	Recap of Day 1
	10:00 – 11:30	Noise reduction, Changing the pitch on audio L2 export of two stories (Only after RP's approval)
	11:30 – 12:00	Note down the sound elements needed
	12:00 – 1:00	Search method to get relevant elements
	2:00 – 2:15	Ice breaker
	2:15 – 2:30	Adding the theme music and intro track
	2:30 – 4:00	Adding the sound effects (Fade in/out, Amplify, generating silence)
	4:00 - 4:30	Adding the BGM
Day 3	9:30 – 10:00	Recap of Day 1 & 2
	9:30 – 10:30	Export the final version Metadata Copyright Continue for 2nd story and repeat the whole process

Resources

Technology Resources

Resource	Link	Purpose
Kathe Khajane	Kathe Khajane	To install the application and to listen to the stories
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