Tamil and Telugu Audio Resource Creation workshop, Bengaluru South 2024-25

தமிழ் , తెలుగు, Marathi, Urdu and Kannada

Objectives:

1. To help teachers immersively experience and appreciate storytelling as a pedagogy
2. To enable teachers to access, analyze and evaluate appropriate and related resources for language teaching-learning from various repositories
3. To create opportunities for teachers to collaboratively develop, curate, and share educational resources.
4. To introduce teachers to FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) tools and innovative digital techniques for creating audio resources.
5. To support teachers in building a contextual repository of multilevel, multimodal digital resources across multiple languages.

Teachers information

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Agenda:

Day	Time	Activity	Resources
Day 1	10 – 10:30 AM	Settling down, inaugration, registration
	10:30 – 11:00 AM	Introductions, sharing objectives and Expectation setting	Slide Deck
	11:00 – 11:30 AM	Immersive demonstration followed by related activity
	11:30 – 12 PM	Storytelling techniques exercises with situations (improv exercises)
	12:00 – 12:30 PM	Go through the list and select 1st story for recording	Telugu stories Tamil stories
	12:30 - 1	Group formation Try out different voice modulations for the selected story and record it individually/in pairs/small groups	Guidelines for story narration - English Guidelines for story narration - Telugu
	1:00 – 1:45	Lunch
	1:45 – 2:30 PM	Configuring recording app (Recforge2) on mobile and audacity	Audio recorder - PlayStore link RecForge II - Audio Recorder
	2:30 – 3 PM	Teachers practice and record the selected the story
	3 – 4 PM	Present recorded trial story for discussion and feedback Group wise plenary presentations of 1 recording each for feedback and discussion
	4 – 4.30 PM	Exploring repositories in more detail and choosing stories
Day 2	10 AM – 10:30 AM	The Child's Language And The Teacher
	10:30 AM – 1 PM	Deciding who plays which character, script annotation, dialogues, practice Half an hour recording slots start from 11:00 AM
	1:00 – 1:45	Lunch
	1.45 – 2:30 PM	Teachers who finished first story recording – need to fill the simple template - Sound/music suggestions - Technical instructions, - Creator name, ph. no.
	2:30 – 3:30 PM	Continue to record more stories… Teachers in pair will practice the next story and go for recording.
	3:30 – 4:30 PM	Language Learning - Objectives, Challenges Myths and Principles regarding language teaching	Language Learning - Objectives, Challenges Myths and Principles - slide
Day 3	10:00 AM – 11 AM	Present in plenary and review Teachers will play some of their recording to take the feedback from the other groups
	11 – 1 PM	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
	4 – 4:30	Wrapping up, way forward

Resources

Language resources

1. The Child's Language And The Teacher - A Handbook - By Krishna Kumar
2. Significance of Listening Skills for Language Acquisition and Learning

OER story repositories

1. Storyweaver
2. Arvindguptatoys
3. https://freekidsbooks.org/
4. https://www.letsreadasia.org/
5. https://www.booksie.org/

Technology resources

1. Access stories from Katha-Khajane
2. Story selection and Recording Guidelines for teachers
3. Use Audio recorder - PlayStore link or RecForge II - Audio Recorder android app to record stories
4. Guidelines for recording a good audio with minimal equipment