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Revision as of 09:46, 18 March 2025
Background
The Jharkhand Language Enrichment and Application Program (J-LEAP) is a collaborative initiative with the Collectives for Integrated Livelihood Initiatives (CInI) aimed at improving language competencies among children attending Anganwadi centres (AWC) in Jharkhand. The program focuses on leveraging digital story-based pedagogies to enhance listening comprehension and creative expression skills, particularly in children's mother tongues and regional languages. The pilot outlined in the proposal is currently underway, and will continue until March 2025. It aims to provide a deeper understanding to inform future expansion, covering additional geographies, levels, and languages.
The J-LEAP Pre-Workshop Orientation was conducted on Saturday, 11th January 2025, successfully bringing together 21 resource persons from Khunti along with representatives from IT for Change and CInI. The workshop introduced the program and established clear guidelines for the collaborative story development process. It marked a strong start to this collaborative initiative, demonstrating exceptional engagement and enthusiasm from all participants. The workshop report is available here.
The J-LEAP Story Narration and Recording Workshop was conducted from 17th-19th February 2025. This in-person workshop included review of the selected stories, review of story translations, techniques to make storytelling more engaging, as well as the recording and review processes. The workshop was conducted in Ranchi, Jharkhand with 10 Mundari-speaking CInI resource persons as well as the facilitators from IT for Change. A total of 20 stories were successfully recorded during the workshop. The stories draw from local folklore, personal experiences, and cultural traditions of Jharkhand, creating a rich repository of contextually relevant content for Anganwadi children. All story scripts developed so far can be accessed here, and all the recorded stories can be accessed here. The workshop report is available here.
The Story Editing and Production Workshop will be conducted from 17th-21st March 2025. This in-person workshop will be conducted in Khunti, Jharkhand with 10 Mundari-speaking CInI resource persons as well as the facilitators from IT for Change. This in-person workshop will include recording and review of stories, introduction to Audacity audio-editing software, hands-on practice, as well as editing of recorded stories and the review processes.
Workshop objectives
- Support participants in recording additional stories in the Mundari language.
- Guide participants through the entire audio production process, from recording to editing.
- Use FOSS Tools – Introduce and train participants in using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for audio editing.
- Help participants to access OER sound repositories and integrate OER sound effects and background sounds into their narrations.
- Empower OER Creators – Enable participants to create and curate Open Educational Resources (OER) by applying learned audio storytelling techniques.
Workshop dates
Dates: 17th to 21st March 2025. Duration: 5 Days
Day-wise Workshop Agenda
| DAY 1 - 17th March 2025 | |||
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| Time | Topics to be covered | Topic particulars | Resources |
| 10:00 to 10:30 AM | Progress mapping and
Workshop Overview |
1. Inauguration and introductions
2. Brief recap of work done so far 3. Sharing workshop objectives 4. Discussing the workshop agenda |
Introductory slide-deck |
| 10.30 to 11:30 AM | Progress mapping and selection of more story scripts | 1. Review of past recordings - progress mapping
2. Selecting new stories for recording, practice narrations and peer review 3. peer review the content |
1. All developed story scripts |
| 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM | Recording and review process - I | 1. Finalising and Recording a common introductory message for all stories
2. Finalising and Recording a common theme track for all stories 3. Recording suitable sound effects/ background tracks for stories |
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| Lunch | |||
| 2:30 to 4:30 PM | Recording and review process - II | 1. Continuation of story recordings
2. Peer review and sharing feedback 3. Filling meta-data forms for recorded stories |
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| 4:30 to 5:00 PM | Summing up | Recap of work done so far, task allocation and prep for Day 2 | |
| DAY 2 - 18th March 2025 | |||
| 9:30 – 10:30 | - Introduction to Audacity, Why Audacity?
- Interface, toolbars, User manuals - Folder structure, organizing files |
Learn Audacity page | |
| 10:30 – 12:30 | - Basic audio editing techniques by using sample recording
- Exploring cut/copy/paste/Undo and other important functions - Basic effects – volume adjustment through different options, - Using Fade in/out feature to clear abrupt start and end - Saving the project (save, save as lossless) |
Mundari stories recorded during the workshop | |
| 12:30 – 1:00 | - Story allocation
- Go through the Audio editing guideline |
Audio editing guidelines | |
| Lunch | |||
| 2:00 – 3:00 | - Basic editing (trim) of allocated story | Basic audio editing | |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | - L1 – Explain Save project and export audio to WAV | Video tutorial - exporting audio files | |
| 3:30 – 4:30 | - Using basic effects like pitch change, reverb, repeat,
Noise reduction to make narration more clear and effective |
Adjusting the volume in the audio | |
| 4:30- 5:00 | - Showcasing & feedback from peers session | ||
| DAY 3 - 19th March 2025 | |||
| 9:30 – 10:00 | - Recap of Day 1 & 2 | ||
| 10:00 – 10:30 | - Work on the feedback's given from others
L2 export of two stories |
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| 10:30 - 1:00 | - Note down the sound elements needed
- Go through the sound repositories (both offline +online) - Organize sound effects BGM in the master folder - Work on adding sounds effects and BGM and (the theme music?) |
Video tutorial - Adding backgrounf music and sfx | |
| Lunch | |||
| 2:00 – 3:00 | - Continue to work on adding sound effects and BGM
- Export the final version of the edited audio |
Video tutorial - exporting audio files | |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | - Playing finished stories to get feedback from others
- Work on the feedback and finalize the first set of stories |
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| 3:30 – 5:00 | - Continue working on next 2nd set of stories.
- Work on L1, L2 and save projects |
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| DAY 4 - 20th March 2025 | |||
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Recap of Day 3 | ||
| 10:00 – 1:00 | - Continue to work on the 2nd set of stories | ||
| Lunch | |||
| 2:00 – 5:00 | - Continue to work on the 2nd set of story and do the final export | ||
| DAY 5 - 21st March 2025 | |||
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Recap of Day 3 | ||
| 10:00 – 1:00 | - Continue to work on the 3rd set of stories | ||
| Lunch | |||
| 2:00 – 3:30 | - Continue to work on the 3rd set of story and do the final export | ||
| 3:30 - 4:30 | - Assignments
- Way forward - Feedback |
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Resources
- Access stories from Kathe Khajane (AntennaPod)
- Story editing guidelines for teachers to follow
- Mundari stories recorded during the workshop
Technology Resources
| Resource | Link | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Kathe Khajane | AntennaPod | To install the application and to listen to the 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 features in Audacity (by IT for Change) |
| Audacity official site | Audacity official manual | Official site which keeps you updated on newer versions, tools and features |
NOTE:- We have collected some great music and sound effects from all the above OER music repositories and put them in one folder. Click here to check out the music repository.
OER audio repositories
From the below table you can find quality OER music and sound effects to reuse it in your project
| Sl no | Website name | Link |
| 1 | Bensound | Bensound |
| 3 | Freesound | Freesound |
| 4 | Pixabay | Pixabay |
| 5 | Wikimedia common | Wikimedia audio |
| 6 | Chosic | Chosic |