Express parenting got in touch with the publishing house to know more about the initiative and what it means for kids to be introduced to a digital platform. In 14 years, we have published over 3,000 books and distributed over 14 million copies of our storybooks and 16 million story cards. It was cofounded by madhav chavan and farida lambay. Chalklit is an app for teacher education and training. Pratham books online platform storyweaver helps save rare. The story is about a girl mira, whose father goes to the market to buy raisins to.
It works towards the provision of quality education to the underprivileged children in india. Learning content for preschoolers, primary and upper primary school and vocational awareness is available in major indian languages including punjabi. At the core is the ability to harness the explosion of digital data and computational power with advanced algorithms that extend the ability for machines to learn, reason, sense, and understandenabling collaborative and natural interactions between. Pratham systech india ltd software development company in. The children look cheerful during story time and are excited to learn something new from each storybook. Storyweaver is a writing software that can guide you stepbystep through the entire process of story development from initial inspiration to completed story. Adapting the original design files in print and converting it into sizes and designs that are suitable for storyweaver pratham books digital story platform. Working closely with our content team to create and adapt content for digital and print mediums. Suzanne singh, the chairperson of pratham books, shares her thoughts on the journey of pratham. Designed to provide children with reading resources, storyweaver is a digital gateway to thousands of richly illustrated, openlicensed childrens. To find and share stories, create your own stories or translate stories to a language youre familiar with. Heres a colourful and fun animation showing you all the ways you can use storyweaver. Pradigi is pratham s digital initiative to strengthen, spread and sustain lifelong learning.
Pratham has worked towards creating anenvironment that inculcates reading habit in children by encouragingthem to read simple story books and also write. Luckily, our friends at storyweaver have built an amazing free platform for very. 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. In addition to learning camps, two days in a week are dedicated forlibrary activities in the school. The publishing house threw open its entire repository of stories and. For a studentparent enrolling for our crash course program, the amount paid at the time of registration is not refundable. Storyweaver is one of the best programs ive seen for the task. Working closely with the production team for the first print run of the books.
Pratham books storyweaver launched 100 open digital libraries for children in their mother tongues on the. Purvi shah director storyweaver pratham books linkedin. Our story board of directors staff members the champions programs. Storyweaver is an open source platform by pratham books for multilingual childrens stories. Storybook weaver is a 1994 educational game released on floppy disk for the apple macintosh, aimed at children aged 612. Jan 24, 2019 ai researchers are striving to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and enrich human experiences and capabilities. Pratham software psi is a global it solutions company that helps smes, fortune 500 companies, global isvs. This website is provided by story weaver and pratham books on an as is and as available basis. With the aim to enable self learning using digital means, pradigi content will be available through this android app, a webpage and a youtube channel. Browse, read, create, translate and share childrens story books for free. With the aim to enable self learning using digital means, pradigi content will be available through this android app, a.
Increasing learning and influencing policywe innovate, measure and scale lowcost programs that improve learning outcomes while influencing education policy to meet the needs of underprivileged children and youth across india. 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. For christ university, amity, upes dehradun and other private universities we will be uploading tips on the students psis account for the same. Pratham books storyweaver how collaboration is helping build the ecosystem for early reading materials. Indias pratham books storyweaver platform offers open source of. Our programs have provided access to quality education to over 58 million underprivileged children in india during the past. Storyweaver pushes our idea of book in every childs hand. Open source publishing for indias children in guest contributors by guest contributor january 6, 2016 indias pratham books storyweaver platform offers. He lives in bangalore, working as a software consultant.
As authors and translators, working with the pratham books team has. Story weaver, pratham, childrens book, hindi addeddate 20160629 06. We welcome personal gifts, pooled donations, foundation grants and company sponsorships. It helps further the endeavor to find newer ways to ensure that every child is able to discover the joy of reading. Pratham books is our own little rabbithole of adventures filled with linguistically stimulating stories that we get to write and translate. Chalklit provides tools, resources, and trainings to teachers to help them teach better in their classrooms. Translate a story into a language you know and open up the world of stories to children who read in that language. Pratham books storyweaver is an online platform that connects readers, authors, illustrators, and translators to create free stories for children around the world. This video explains how you can create a new story on. Hs, 2nd floor, kailash colony main market, new delhi110048, telephone.
The story is about a girl mira, whose father goes to the market to buy raisins to make kheer at home. Translators living outside india are also contributing to storyweaver by translating books into foreign languages like japanese, portuguese, hebrew, russian, and spanish. How this open source platform is weaving stories of. Pratham systech india ltd software development company. To find and share stories, create your own stories or. Genesis year legacy as a non profit multilingual childrens book publisher distributed. The deluxe version was made available for both home and school environments. Kasturia, illustrated by zainab tambawalla, published by pratham books pratham books. They are booklike in terms of shape, size, colour and matter but are extremely. We have stories in over 100 languages, and are constantly looking at adding more. Through storyweavers open source technology, openly licensed stories can be translated, remixed, or newly authored to expand the diversity of storybooks available to children. Browse through thousands of openly licensed stories for children in over 100 languages of the world.
It offers wide range of it related solutions like custom software development for specific purpose, software for various types of business management specially cooperatives. Carl hose the writers inkwell i must say, having used other types of writing software, story weaver is simply fantastic. Pratham gets differentstory books every year to the schools for library activities. How this open source platform is weaving stories of communities in their own languages. An updated version, storybook weaver deluxe, was released for windows and mac computers and featured much more content than the original. Story weaver, pratham, childrens book, hindi addeddate 20160701 05. This book has been published on storyweaver by pratham books. Pratham books was set up as a notforprofit childrens book publisher in 2004 with the mission to see a book in every childs hand. As an industry leader, we were one of the first publishers in the country to open license our content.
Story weaver is an open source platform of multilingual stories. Pratham will prepare students for interviewsgroup discussion if applicable for symbiosis international universitydelhi university bbsbbebfiabms, oberois, iim indore. In 2015, pratham books, a notforprofit publisher of childrens literature, created an online platform called storyweaver. Story weaver, pratham, childrens book, hindi addeddate 20160629 11.
The average salary for pratham software employees in india is. Suzanne singh, the chairperson of pratham books, shares her thoughts on the journey of pratham books and their ambition to promote reading among children. She talks about pratham books and their initiative, storyweaver, a platform that hosts stories in languages from all across india and beyond. Jul 31, 2018 heres a colourful and fun animation showing you all the ways you can use storyweaver. Childrens publisher pratham books has launched story books in the gif format.
This is awesome software that covers all the elements of your story. With continued support from, pratham books will dramatically increase the number of quality stories available through storyweaver and expand distribution and access to the platform, aiming for. As authors and translators, working with the pratham books team has always been a crunchyasapakoda, delightfully fun, and khushi experience for us. Ltd,an it company, stepping in dealing of various it services in nepal. It addresses all the issues around the lack of content by using the open access framework and. In 2015, pratham books increased its footprint by going digital. He has written and translated more than 70 books in tamil english, including many children stories. 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. All the content on storyweaver is available under creative commons licenses to encourage collaboration and reuse. However, there were several internal questions for the publisher to answer. Storyweaver is a digital repository of multilingual childrens stories.
Pradigi is prathams digital initiative to strengthen, spread and sustain lifelong learning. The key objective was to publish good quality, affordable story books in multiple indian languages to support reading acquisition among children. It offers wide range of it related solutions like custom software development for specific purpose, software. Click to discover storybooks specially curated by storyweaver for you.
Open source publishing for indias children in guest contributors by guest contributor january 6, 2016 indias pratham books storyweaver platform offers open source of childrens books and encourages users to translate, adapt and use the content for free. In 2015, they created a multilingual online platform called storyweaver, inviting children from across the world to read stories in the languages they spoke and studied in. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, cyber site disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. 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. Storyweaver is an open source digital platform from pratham books on which stories can be read, downloaded, translated, versioned or printed. Braille books, apps, story bot other platforms worldreader, african storybook project, asia foundation. Suzanne singh, chairperson, pratham books the economic times. 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. Carl hose the writers inkwell i must say, having used other types of writing software, story. View purvi shahs profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. A reading product unique to pratham books, story cards are mini storybooks. Established in mumbai in 1994 to provide preschool education to children in slums, pratham. Increasing learning and influencing policywe innovate, measure and scale lowcost programs that improve learning outcomes while influencing education policy to meet the needs of.
Your financial donation is the easiest way to work on behalf of indias youth. Pratham is one of the largest nongovernmental organisations in india. This video explains how you can translate a childrens book on storyweaver. A sample of creative commons ccby childrens books from pratham. Illustrations for a childrens book called whats cooking written by anjali nayar. Jul 26, 2016 so, to preserve stories in such languages that may otherwise be lost, storyweaver translates them into mainstream indian languages.
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