KVS Audio OER workshop

Audio resource creation for English language teaching - an online course from English Language Teachers Association (ELTA) and ITfC

Background

IT for Change and Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangthan (KVS) are collaborating to design and conduct an online workshop on “Audio resources creation for teaching ” for KVS teachers. The course is based on the National ICT curriculum theme - Creating with ICT. This note discusses the objectives, approach, requirements of participants and expected outcomes from the course.

Objectives of the course

1. To explore the arbitrary connections between word and thought and script and sound
2. Exploring new digital methods for language learning.
3. Exploring Audacity FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) to create language resources for language teaching
4. Learning recording and editing audio using Audacity. Making audio resource richer by using multiple sources
5. Understand the philosophy of creating and adapting existing audio resources (Open Educational Resources created with FOSS)
6. Publishing created audio resource on a public repository for the benefit of all teachers

Requirements from the participants

1. All the participants should have a computer (desktop or laptop) along with a good mic + speaker (headphones).
2. Audacity application must be installed on the computer. For installation instructions, refer https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Learn_Audacity#Installation.
3. Each participant need to select poem, phrase or drama to create audio material on the topic.

Join the webinar sessions

The first session of this workshop will start on August 7th 2020 from 2.30 pm to 4 pm.

Expected Outcomes

It is expected that at the end of the course, each participant would have created an audio resource, on their selected topic (poem or prose or any other resource). This resource would be published on a public repository.

Agenda

Webinars and dates	Particulars	Activities	Resources
Webinar 1	Role of Audio in Language Teaching Learning	1. Introduction to the workshop and agenda. 2. Demonstration and discussion about listening and ELT. Hearing a Karadi tale and participants will identify different audio elements 3. Participants will choose one topic to create audio 4. Go through the checklist of recording a good quality audio 5. Go through basic audio recording options in audacity 6. Save the recorded audio files.	Learn Audacity - https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Learn_Audacity Assignment - Select topic to create audio Record the audio using Audacity
Webinar 2	1. Understanding of Audacity editing tools. 2. Understanding when and how to use audio effects to the audio's 3. Using an audio editing tool to add sound elements.	1. Edit recorded audio files using basic tools as we needed 2. Get familiar with audacity project files and the audio files 3. Use some of the Audacity features like noise removal, fade in/out to make your audio more rich and clear. 4. Use the "amplify" feature to adjust the volume of the audio files	Learn Audacity
Webinar 3	1. Using an audio editing tool to enhance an audio resource 2. Understanding of using different background music to make more effective of the audio 3. Publish created audio's on the web.	1. To understand what is tracks and how tracks can be used 2. Use multiple tracks to add background music for the audio 3. Add different audio elements to the audio in any particular places 4. Understanding of SoundCloud audio repository. 5. Upload and share our created audio files on SoundCloud.	Learn Audacity and SoundCloud website

Workshop resources

Technology resources

1. Install Audacity application in your computer
2. Download different background music's to your computer
3. Checklist for recording good audio clip
4. What is copyright and what is OER - See short video

Online OER audio repositories

1. WikimediaCommons
2. BenSound
3. Soundible
4. FreeSound
5. SoundCloud

Additional resources

Audio resources

1. Karadi tales - Very rich and brilliant audio stories based on Indian stories and using Indian tunes... must listen to all
   1. Karadi tale - Blue Jackal by Naseeruddin Shah
   2. Crickematics with Rahul Dravid
   3. Monkey on a Fast with Sanjay Dutt
2. https://www.swarasforschools.com/
3. I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King .Jr

Reading materials on ELT

1. Krashens hypotheses for SLA (Second Language Acquisition)
2. Multi-linguality, education and harmony - Prof Rama Kant Agnihotri (Multi-lingualism, as a resource for ELT
3. Multi-linguality_and_the_teaching_of_English_in_India - Prof Rama Kant Agnihotri
4. National Curriculum 2005 Framework Position Paper on Teaching English
5. National Curriculum 2005 Framework Position Paper on Teaching of Indian Languages
6. Digital Storytelling, an ICT-based method of co-constructing and transacting curriculum
7. Stephen Krashen's Theory of Second Language Acquisition