Educators, parents, publishers, writers, and illustrators browse through stories on storyweaver. It offers wide range of it related solutions like custom software development for specific purpose, software for various types of business management specially cooperatives. Pratham books online platform storyweaver helps save rare languages. Pratham books plans opensource story platform creative commons. Translators living outside india are also contributing to storyweaver by translating books into foreign languages like japanese, portuguese, hebrew, russian, and spanish. At the end it resulted in booking my first home at pratham paradise crest 202. This video explains how you can translate a childrens book on storyweaver. Storyweaver is a writing software that can guide you stepbystep through the entire process of story development from initial inspiration to completed story. Storyweaver is a platform where people passionate about childrens books and reading can collaborate. Pratham is a leading software development company in mumbai, india, provides erp software s for garment manufactures, retail store, textile industry, pharmaceuticals, and many more. Storyweaver is one of the best programs ive seen for the task. Heres a colourful and fun animation showing you all the ways you can use storyweaver. The software runs on our servers and you access it through your web browser, so you can use it on any device desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone wherever and whenever your muse strikes. Browse, read, create, translate and share childrens story books for free.
Jul 24, 2018 storyweaver, an initiative of notforprofit organisation pratham books, is using technology and childrens stories to popularise reading in the mother tongue, and to preserve dying languages in. Hence read india was launched in 2007 to improve reading, writing and basic arithmetic skills of 6 to 14yearold children and is carried out by school teachers, anganwadi workers and volunteers, whom pratham trains. The story is about a girl mira, whose father goes to the market to buy raisins to make kheer at home. Browse through thousands of openly licensed stories for children in over 100 languages of the world. Storybook weaver is a 1994 educational game released on floppy disk for the apple macintosh, aimed at children aged 612. The program is built around more than 200 story cards, each an interactive screen designed to help you develop a single dramatic element of your story. Storybook is a scenebased software for all creative writers that helps to. Hs, 2nd floor, kailash colony main market, new delhi110048, telephone. Pratham books storyweaver is a nonprofit trust that publishes high quality books for children at affordable prices and in multiple indian languages. Storyweaver 3 writing software walk through story development duration. How this open source platform is weaving stories of communities in their own languages.
You can upload the story on our digital content platform, storyweaver. Pratham systech india ltd software development company in. Translation is an important tool on storyweaver, one that gives you the power to take stories to children who love to read stories in languages of their choice languages that you may be proficient in. Recently, the head of prathams content team, usha rane, reported from niger, where she was leading the training of the local team in prathams teaching at the right level tarl methodology. Through storyweavers open source technology, openly licensed stories can be translated, remixed, or newly authored to expand the diversity of storybooks available to children. Storyweaver brings to life dying languages through technology. Click to discover storybooks specially curated by storyweaver for you. Storyweaver is a step by step story development tool that focuses on the creative needs of the author, rather than the structural needs of the story. Read india has reached approximately 34 million children to date, resulting in largescale improvements in literacy levels. In 2015, pratham books, a notforprofit publisher of childrens.
Carl hose the writers inkwell i must say, having used other types of writing software, story weaver is simply fantastic. It helps further the endeavor to find newer ways to ensure that every child is able to discover the joy of reading. From the very first day of my visit, i am quite impressed with the behaviour of pratham s staff. To find and share stories, create your own stories or translate stories to a language youre familiar with.
Jul 31, 2018 heres a colourful and fun animation showing you all the ways you can use storyweaver. Pratham reaches children ages 314 in urban slums and remote rural areas of india through our literacy and learning programs, which include. It was created in order to provide children with access to low cost, high quality books, publish books in multiple indian languages, provide publishers with a platform to create affordable reading material for children, bring authors. However, there were several internal questions for the publisher to answer.
The pratham books champions program encourages a community of volunteers to conduct readingstorytelling sessions in their own citiestownsvillages. This video explains how you can create a new story on storyweaver. Page 15 from too many bananaspratham books cc read more pratham books plans opensource story platform. Pratham books is a notforprofit childrens book publisher that was set up in 2004 to publish good quality, affordable books in many indian languages. While hes away, the kheer he was cooking disappears. Working closely with the production team for the first print run of the books. Prathams powerful mission, every child in schooland learning well attracted very diverse volunteers. The key objective was to publish good quality, affordable story books in multiple indian languages to support reading acquisition among children. An overview and demonstration of storyweaver writing software. Read india our flagship program develops basic reading, writing and numeracy skills in children ages 614 through fun, handson activities that have been shown to improve learning drastically. Pratham books was set up as a notforprofit childrens book publisher in 2004 with the mission to see a book in every childs hand.
A sample of creative commons ccby childrens books from pratham books in india. As authors and translators, working with the pratham books team has always been a crunchyasapakoda, delightfully fun, and khushi experience for us. This is awesome software that covers all the elements of your story. Storyweaver is an open source digital platform from pratham books on which stories can be read, downloaded, translated, versioned or printed. Pratham books online platform storyweaver helps save rare. Its great for generating very unique ideas from what can seem to be boring beginnings. An updated version, storybook weaver deluxe, was released for windows and mac computers and featured much more content than the original. How this open source platform is weaving stories of. Whats even more exciting is what gautams team wants to do with the award.
Storybook weaver software, free storybook weaver software software downloads, page 3. Adapting the original design files in print and converting it into sizes and designs that are suitable for storyweaver pratham books digital story platform. Illustrations for a childrens book called whats cooking written by anjali nayar. Translate a story into a language you know and open up the world of. Jul 26, 2016 so, to preserve stories in such languages that may otherwise be lost, storyweaver translates them into mainstream indian languages. Story weaver is an open source platform of multilingual stories.
Translation is an important tool on storyweaver, one that gives you the power to take stories to children who love to read stories in languages of their choice. All the stories are available under creative commons licenses which means that the stories are free to use and can be translated into new languages, new stories can be created, and. Pratham books storyweaver is an online platform that connects readers, authors, illustrators, and translators to create free stories for children around the world. The storyweaver novel writing suite is a universal environment for novel authors that aims to minimalize the technical effort of writing a novel and to pool all information in one central place.
Pratham has proud to be very helpful to me in achieving my goals and getting into collages of my choice the study material provided by pratham is the best a bms aspirant can get by attending classes and giving test regularly cracking entrance would not a big problem. All the content on storyweaver is available under creative commons licenses to encourage collaboration and reuse. This book has been published on storyweaver by pratham books. Sep 19, 2017 the pratham books champions model is a way for us to take stories to as many places as we can and introduce the joy of reading to several children. Ramu goes fishing english pratham internet archive. Storyweaver is a repository of stories for children, so you will be writing for anyone. If youre a writer, illustrator or both, send us your work. Since a digital story has no boundaries, your story can be read by people across the world. Pratham books is our own little rabbithole of adventures filled with linguistically stimulating stories that we get to write and translate. Storyweaver 3 writing software walk through story development.
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