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Narration
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Welcome to this two minutes overview of the spoken tutorial project
My name is Kannan Moudgalya.
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Spoken tutorial is a screen cast with a running commentary
It is a recording of a computer session
explaining some software
along with a running commentary
The resulting movie is the spoken tutorial
Typically of 10 minute duration
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Steps in Creating Spoken Tutorials are
Outline
Script
Recording
Translating the script into other languages and
Dubbing
Let me explain each of these steps
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We will show the outline of two software systems:
Xfig and
PHP/MySQL
I have already downloaded all the required links for this tutorial from http://spoken-tutorial.org
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| Tab 1
Tab 2
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Let us see the outline for Xfig
Let us see the outline for PHP
Let us go to the next slide
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The 2nd step in creating spoken tutorials is the Script
As a movie needs a good script
A spoken tutorial also needs a good script
The script of the current tutorial is here
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| Show it on Tab 3
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The guidelines to write a script are here
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| Show it on Tab 4
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A tutorial that explains the guidelines will also be available soon
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| Demonstration
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I will now create a short spoken tutorial that explains how to send an email from a gmail account
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| Invoke iShowU
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Let me invoke iShowU, a screen recording software
Observe a rectangle on the screen
whatever comes within this rectangle will get recorded
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| Netscape from dock
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I have opened Netscape
I have placed it exactly within this rectangle
It is pointing to gmail
I will speak in Tamil
Let me start recording
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| In Tamil
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Guest.spoken aaga login seygiren
gmail ai thirandagi vittadu
compose button moolam aarambikap pogiren
kannan@iitb.ac.in
Test
ingu varuvom
This is a test mail
Send button moolam email ai anuppugiren
ippodu sign out seygiren
nanri, vanakkam
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| iShowU shows a .mov file
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I just ended the recording
Immediately, the recording software creates a movie
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| Close
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Let me first close Netscape and iShowU.
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| Press the start button in the Quick Time player
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Let me now play the recorded movie file.
“Recording plays”
Let me advance it
“Recording plays”
Let me close this
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Let us now go to the next slide
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This is what I call as the spoken tutorial
School going children can also create spoken tutorials – it is very easy
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Let me now explain the Tools we have for Recording
On Linux, recordMyDesktop
A spoken tutorial explains how to do this
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| Tab 5
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Let us play this: “Recording plays”
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On Windows we have Camstudio
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| Tab 6
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This spoken tutorial explains how to do this
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| Slide 8
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Both are FOSS
A tutorial gives guidelines for narration
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| Tab 7
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Let me play this
“Recording plays”
Let me come back to slides
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The 4th Step in creating spoken tutorials is
translating the script into Local Languages
To make it accessible for people weak in English
I will show translated scripts for getting started on Scilab in
Hindi, Marathi and Bengali
Hindi, Marathi and Bengali
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| Switch over to firefox
Tab 8 of the browser
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Let us go back to the browser.
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| Tab 9 of the browser
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| Tab 10 of the browser
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Using the script, we change the spoken part only.
Video remains the same.
On Linux, we can use Audacity and ffmpeg
A spoken tutorial explains how to do this
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| Tab 1
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Let me minimise this browser
Underneath this, I have another browser with several tabs
Let me play this: “Recording plays”
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On Windows, we can use Movie Maker
A spoken tutorial explains how to do this
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| Tab 2
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Let us go to the next slide
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We will now see Scilab spoken tutorials in Hindi, Malayalam and Bengali.
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| Switch over to firefox
Tab 3 of this browser
Press play and stop
Tab 4 of this browser
Press play and stop
Tab 5 of this browser
Press play and stop
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“Hindi recording plays”
Let me play Malayalam
“Malayalam recording plays”
We will play Bengali
“Bengali recording plays”
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Let us go to back to the slides
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Let us discuss how to present complex topics through spoken tutorials.
After all, a spoken tutorial is only ten minutes long.
By combining spoken tutorials, advanced topics can also be taught.
If sufficient small steps are available,
Himalayas can also be climbed.
Let us now view the study plans for LaTeX and Scilab
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| Switch over to firefox
Tab 6
Tab 7
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LaTeX study plans
Scilab study plans
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Let us go to the next slide.
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One can bridge digital divide through spoken tutorials.
For example, one can explain how to buy train tickets through irctc
How to locate low cost agricultural loans.
How to locate information on primary health care.
How to obtain information on first aid.
How to do web search to locate the shop that sells Tvs at the lowest price.
Indeed, this list is endless.
As a matter of fact, this approach can be used to bridge digital divide.
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Spoken tutorials are released under creative commons license.
These are available for free download from the spoken tutorial website.
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Let us discuss the honorarium available for creating a ten minute spoken tutorial
Rs. 3,500 to create script and slides
Rs. 500 for review by novice or beginner
Rs. 1,000 for recording the spoken tutorial - this can be done by the beginner as well
Rs. 1,000 for translation into a local language
Rs. 500 for dubbing into a local language.
To be paid after review and acceptance.
The above amounts are for a ten minute spoken tutorial. Actual honorarium will be proportional to the number of minutes.
There is a one time bonus of Rs. 5,000 also
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Our target audience is a remote child,
working alone at midnight,
without anyone to help her.
In other words, spoken tutorials need to be created for self learning.
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We actively promote Open Source Software
Conduct workshops through student clubs,
using spoken tutorials and financial support
We also look for Campus Ambassadors
We have a spoken tutorial on Campus Ambassador programme
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| Tab 8
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Let us play it
“Recording plays”
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| Flash slide 18
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Let us show the web site of our project, http://spoken-tutorial.org
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The current tutorial is available here
Where to contact us is here
A list of FOSS systems is available through the wiki – let us click this
You may join any of them
You may also propose work on new systems
Please feel free to contact us.
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Let us go to the next slide. We welcome your participation.
To create, review and use spoken tutorials
We also need technology support
We have lots of jobs as well.
Work with us, full time or part time.
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Why should you work with us?
To remove digital divide
To make our children IT literate
To promote FOSS
To make our children employable
To make our country a developed one
To realise the dream of Dr. Abdul Kalam
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Let us go to the next slide. We have a small assignment for you.
Please see if you can locate all the web pages shown in this tutorial.
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I would like to acknowledge the funding support now
Spoken tutorial is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project
It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India
More information on this mission is available at
http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro
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We have come to the end of this tutorial
Thanks for joining us
This is Kannan Moudgalya signing off
Goodbye and Jai Hind
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