Audio OER creation course for RIESI CELT, September 2020

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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 online course on “Audio resources creation for language teaching ” for English language teachers, who are participating in the CELT program of RIESI. 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 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 are arbitrary
  2. 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
  3. To learn recording and editing audio using Audacity. Making your audio resource richer by using multiple audio files (background music)
  4. To introduce the philosophy of creating and adapting existing audio resources (Open Educational Resources created with FOSS)
  5. To publish created audio resource on a public repository for the benefit of all teachers

Approach

The course will be held over 4 webinar sessions and each webinar duration will be for a duration of 90 mins.

  1. Session1 : Overview of the course. Exploring the role of audio in language learning. Introduction to audio resources/ICT, and identification of audio resource to be created by each participant.
  2. Offline activity — Install Audacity on computer. Record audio clip using Audacity or mobile based apps.
  3. Sessions 2, 3 and 4 : These sessions will be hands-on sessions. Here the participants will create the audio resource on the selected topic and will some sound effects to the recorded audio clips. The participants will present their audio files and will upload on an online repository.
  4. The webinar is proposed to be held on the following dates September 28, 30 and October 1 & 3. The webinar timings will be 11 to 12:30 for the Secondary School Teachers and 3 to 4:30 for the Primary School Teachers.
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