Module4 : Audio Recording Basics

Summary

Learning basics of present day’s technology and it trends helps Adolescent girls in numerous positive ways. By learning audio recording, Adolescent girls will develop interest in technology and it also increases confidence in them.

Objective

Introduction to Audio Recording

Process

As discussed earlier, 4 groups will be formed. Each group will be given 2 recorders (approximately 5 minutes).

Below mentioned are some of the examples of questionarr as a way of interaction among the groups. ( Approximately 10 mins)

What will you do if u become the queen of our nation?
Mention 5 names of your friends during your childhood days.
What gift will you present to your best friend? - Full sentence in Kannada was, if you can give any gift to you best friend, then what would you give?
If given an opportunity to make the school prepare a special dish in your school, what will you prepare
If in case you are told that what ever you dream of will become true, what will you dream of?
If in case you have been gifted aS special power by birth, what power will you wish for?
While returning from school if you luckily find Rs 500/- , what all will you wish to purchase from it?
If in case, you are permitted to go out with 3 of your friends for 3 days, who will be those friends and where will you go?
If god appears in front of you and wishes to grant you a boon, what will you ask for?
If a shopping mall is offering everything for free, what would you wish to take?
If in case you are offered to be the heroine of your favorite movie, which movie will it be and why ?
If you have the power of imposing a prohibition on anything, on what will you prohibit?
If in case a great flood occurs, Which area would you wish to save and why?
If you have a power of being invisible, whom will you wish to scare and why?
If you are permitted to subjugate? Hypnotise? any wild animal, which animal will it be and why?
If you are given an opportunity to change rules of your favourite game then Which is your favorite game, and which rule of that game would you wish to change and why?
If in case you are offered to be playback singer of your favorite song, which song will it be and why?
In case you are offered a choice to either be most intelligent person in the world or richest person in the world, which one will you opt for and why?
Lets imagine that your name is published in the daily newspaper. In what context would you wish your name to be in?
Lets imagine that you can speak to any animal, which animal it would be and why?
If in case you are selected to be Bigg Boss reality show contestant, who are the persons you want as your co-contestants/house mates?
If you are given a choice to either choose 24 hours of day or 24 hours of night, which one would you like to choose and why?
If in case you are allowed to go back to your sweetest moment of your life , which moment will it be and why?
Till date, Which is the movie you have watched that made you cry the most?
If in case you are granted a boon of converting any big thing in to a small thing, and later make it big whenever you want then what will be those things and why?
If in case you also have a third eye like lord Shiva, what will you open it for and why?

Adolescent girls
Playback the recordings to the girls and seek their feedback on them
After obtaining the feedback, introduce them to terms like levels, peak, background and thumb rules. (approximately for 10 mins)

Choose 4 or 5 adolescent girls in random , and ask them to remember the technological terms ( levels, peak, background, thumb rules) taught in the previous step in mind and redo the audio recording. (approximately for 5 mins)

Play the recorded audio once more to all the Adolescent girls and obtain feedback from them. (approximately for 5 mins)

After that, teach and make them familiar with universal symbols like Play, Pause, Record and Stop buttons. (approximately for 5 mins)

In the end, share why is it necessary to learn audio recording and in what ways will it help them in future. (approximately for 5 mins)

Required Resources

1 no: A computer with Audio editing software (Audacity)installed in it

1 no: Projector

1 no: Speaker

2 nos: Recorder

Required number of facilitators in total

One main facilitator

Three other facilitators to interact with groups

Total time

80 minutes

Inputs

Presentation

Outputs

Audio recordings made by the Adolescent girls