We will have many types of volunteers including teachers, administrators and co-ordinators. To add content to the Knudi website, one should have an account at https://hashnode.com/. Then they will be added to the team "Kannada Nudi Spoken Kannada"

Hashnode user name

When one creates an account at hashnode.com, they get to choose an username. One can choose whatever they like. For example, Ravi Krishnappa's hashnode username is @mdmdm

Pick an user name. One day, you may be creating your own publication.

Your First Article

When you log-in, you will see your profile photo at the top right corner. If you click, it will show "Start New Article". Click on it and then onwards, it is a natural flow.

Article Name

Please check with team members to name the article for intuitive guessing. The article name is also the URL for the article. Some article names may have the year to signify it's relavance is that year.

Audience Focus

There will be four types of audience

Casual Visitors

The content of website is indexed by major search engines like Google, Bing and probably another 100 sites. knudi content will come up in search engines and uses may click on that article. Then, they may browse around. Website like Knudi are like newspapers. Once you buy a newspaper, you can read any article on any page.

Parents

Parents who want to send their kids to Knudi may come to web site to learn about course schedule, course content, fee structure, teacher credentials, privacy etc

Students

Students will be guided to visit a particular page to know about lessons, audio and video recordings, project works and home assignments

Volunteers

Teachers may revisit a page to update themselves or create new content. They may even update previous content to improve clarity or to fix mistakes. Co-ordinators may create or update time sensitive content to reflect changes.

Describes what kids will learn

Teachers Interaction

How teachers will interact

Students participation

All students participate by listening to peers and themselves trying

The workshops are conducted over 8-10 week ends on either Saturdays or Sundays. There will be two sessions, one in the morning and one in the evening. In each session, there will be multiple classes, based on class size and level of familiarity of the languages. We get students from previous workshops with some familiarity and deserve to learn with peers.

Week 1

Greetings, Self identification, identifying mother, father, brothers, sisters, grandpa, grandma, relatives, friends

Week 1 Learning Details

Week 2

Review of Week 1 identification of colors, objects

Week 3

More cool stuff in the kitchen

Week 4

More cool stuff in the kitchen and breakfast time, lunch time and dinner time Names of dishes they like, love and crave Dad's favorite foods Amma's favorite foods

Yes, it's true. The volunteers teaching in this workshop have taught it to students from all age groups, from 8 years old to 40 years young. There are no pre requisites and the spoken Kannada is taught using many well proven techniques.

Educative and Fun

The pace is slow and steady. Classes are fun and kids love interacting with teachers and fellow students. Emphasis is on steady pace and inclusive. No kid will be left behind. We encourage parents to listen to their kids and encourage them.

Professional

Extensive communication will be in place. The parents are invited to an orientation class. Classes are scheduled in the morning and evening. Kids with different level of conversation skills are combined to maintain reasonable uniformity.