Audio resource creation for English Language Teaching
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Course background
Regional Institute of English, South India (RIESI) and IT for Change (ITfC) are collaborating to design and conduct an workshop on “Audio resources creation for language teaching ” for English language teachers, who are participating in the CELT/PGDELT program of RIESI. The course is based on the National ICT curriculum theme “Creating with ICT”.
Objectives of the workshop
- To understand the connection between the word and the thought (can we communicate abstract ideas without words, i.e., sounds) and to recognize that the combinations of sounds and what they describe is arbitrary
- To explore 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
- To learn to record and editing audio using Audacity. Making your audio resource richer by using multiple audio files (background music)
- To introduce the philosophy of creating and adapting existing audio resources (Open Educational Resources created with FOSS)
- To publish created audio resource on a public repository for the benefit of all teachers
Registration for the workshop
Click here to register for this Audio creation course
Workshop agenda
Timing | Particulars | Activities | Resources |
10:00-10.30 | Introduction to the workshop |
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Audacity installation |
10.30-11.00 | Get familiarity with Audacity |
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Learn Audacity#Working with the application |
11.00-12.00 |
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Learn Audacity#Recording with Audacity
Learn Audacity#Adjusting the volume of the audio |
12.00 - 1.00 |
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Learn Audacity#Removing noise |
LUNCH BREAK 1.00 - 2.00 | |||
2.00 - 3.30 |
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Learn Audacity#Importing audio and multiple tracks |
3.30 - 4.30 |
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Learn Audacity and Learn Soundcloud |
4.30 - 5.00 | Participants' presentation |
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To fill the course feedback form click here |
Note : Participants who actively participate and submit their final audio files by the end of the workshop will get participation certificates.
Workshop Resources
Technology resources
- Audacity handout
- Checklist for recording good audio clip
- What is copyright and what is OER (Watch this video to know about different copyrights laws)
- Use SoundCloud repository to upload and share your audio materials (Video)
Online OER audio repositories
- Background music tracks accessed from different OER repositories (Google Drive)
- WikimediaCommons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Audio_files
- BenSound - https://www.bensound.com/
- Soundible - http://soundbible.com/
- FreeSound - https://freesound.org/
- SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/
Reading materials on ELT
- Krashen's hypotheses for SLA (Second Language Acquisition)
- Multi-linguality_and_the_teaching_of_English_in_India - Prof Rama Kant Agnihotri
- NCF2005 Position Paper on Teaching of Indian Languages
- Digital Storytelling, an ICT-based method of co-constructing and transacting curriculum
Additional resources
- Rich recitations
- Karadi tales - Very rich and brilliant audio stories based on Indian stories and using Indian tunes.
- Crickematics with Rahul Dravid
- Monkey on a Fast with Sanjay Dutt
- Karadi tales - Very rich and brilliant audio stories based on Indian stories and using Indian tunes.
- Poetry online
- Poems online (10,000 poems) available for download
- Access poems and upload your poems All Poetry
- Poetry foundation
- Great speeches:
Audio resources created by last batch participants
To check the audio resources created by participated teachers Click here
Assignment and feedback
- At the end of the workshop submit your audio file here
- click here to submit your feedback about this workshop