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|1. Participants have to select (on selected story line and poem etc)<br> | |1. Participants have to select (on selected story line and poem etc)<br> | ||
2. Use lab computers or their personal laptop or mobile phones to record.<br>3.If it is story - participants can make groups of 2 people to record<br>4. For Poem - try to record same poem with different voice modulation<br>5. Save your audio files.<br>6. Import all recorded audio files into systems.<br> | 2. Use lab computers or their personal laptop or mobile phones to record.<br>3.If it is story - participants can make groups of 2 people to record<br>4. For Poem - try to record same poem with different voice modulation<br>5. Save your audio files.<br>6. Import all recorded audio files into systems.<br> | ||
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2. To understand what is track and its uses<br>3. Use multiple tracks to add background music for the audio<br>4. Participants identify the sound effects they would like to add<br>5. File export as audio files and save as project | 2. To understand what is track and its uses<br>3. Use multiple tracks to add background music for the audio<br>4. Participants identify the sound effects they would like to add<br>5. File export as audio files and save as project |
Revision as of 16:01, 12 March 2021
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
- 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
- Learning recording and editing audio using Audacity. Making your audio resource richer by using multiple audio files (background music)
- Introduce the philosophy of creating and adapting existing audio resources (Open Educational Resources created with FOSS)
- Publishing created audio resource on a public repository for use of all teachers
Agenda
Time | Session | Structure | Objectives/ Outcomes | Activities |
10.00 - 10.30 | Overview | Presentation | Understand objectives of the workshop
Review the agenda Understanding second language acquisition (Krashen) |
Review the workshop page
Read the resource on Krashen (See Resources section) |
10.30 -11.00 | Record audio using different devices | Demo | Using different applications for audio recording
Understanding the technical specifications for audio – headphones, microphone, etc |
Check list of recording a good quality audio
Audacity interface - Go through the audio recording process – record pause, play, stop and save as project file, export. Mobile apps are like sound recorder, audio recorder, recorder Record and save audio files. |
11-11.15 | Tea break | |||
11.15-12.45 | Creating audio resources for the lessons in the text | Demo and Hands-on | 1. Understanding the power of audio in a classroom 2. Appreciating the incremental benefit that the digital audio resource brings to a classroom – possibilities of introducing contextual sounds |
1. Participants have to select (on selected story line and poem etc) 2. Use lab computers or their personal laptop or mobile phones to record. |
12.45-1.00 | Hands-on | Import audio into systems (who are recorded in mobile)
And import to audcaity (all) | ||
1.00-2.00 | LUNCH | |||
2-3.30 | Adding audio elements to your recording | Demo and Hands-on | 1. Effectiveness of adding audio effects 2. Understanding when to use audio effects and how |
1. Use edit tools to refine your audio by removing unwanted part
2. To understand what is track and its uses |
3-3.15 | Tea break | |||
3.30-4.30 | Use different audio effects for make audio more interest | Demo and Hands-on | Using an audio editing tool to enhance an audio resource
Understanding of using different audio effects to make more effective of the story |
1. Use amplify to adjust the output volume of your audio files
2. Fade in/out to adjust the audio -voice modulation 4. Use different audacity tools like envelop, noise removal, silence. 5. Save Export your audio files in different formats. |
4.30 - 5.00 | Participants presentation | Presentation | Review participants created audio resources | 1. Participants have to present their audio resources created in workshop.
2. Participants have to give feedback for fellow participants. 3. Workshop feedback from the participants |
Some principles for recording audio resource
Pedagogical principles (Principles for recording conversations amongst two or more people)
- Relevant to the student school community home context.
- Meaningful. Richness, variety.
- Allowing scope for background music, sounds.
- Appropriate level of language complexity.
Technology rules (Rules for getting a good quality recording using your mobile phone or laptop)
- Script need to be ready before recording and detailed
- Find out a less noisy and closed place to record
- Turn off fans and air conditioners, use curtains or thick cloth to cover windows
- Don't use computer which makes noise
- Keep your Mic at-least 15cm away from your mouth
- Use good head phones –
- Audio jacks are working fine
- Mic input is working
- Headphones should support audacity or any other audio tools
- Input level should be less than 100%
- Do test recording to check quality. Satisfy yourself before final recording
Download this checklist from here
Resources
- 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.
- Audio resources created in the RIESI workshops
- June 2020, ELT course
- January 2020 CELT participants
- September 2019 - CELT participants
- August 2019 - CELT participants
- July 2019 - CELT participants
- Audio's created by IT for Change - Tabla Bhols and Flute resources
- Swaras for schools - combining English rhymes with Indian tunes
- Audacity handout (Free and Open sources audio editor tool) - to create audio resources
- Karadi tales - Very rich and brilliant audio stories based on Indian stories and using Indian tunes... must listen to all
- Karadi tale - Blue Jackal by Naseeruddin Shah
- Crickematics with Rahul Dravid
- Monkey on a Fast with Sanjay Dutt
- Online OER audio repositories
- Reading resources
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