Originally published at: OEG Voices 076: Purvi Shah on Storyweaver – OE Global Voices
In this episode we take you to Bangalore, India to hear about a remarkable publisher, Pratham Books and its Open Education for Excellence Award winning platform Storyweaver, core to Pratham’s mission of a book in the hands of every child in the country, published in that child’s mother tongue. We welcomed in the studio Purvi Shah, Senior Director of StoryWeaver & Strategy to tell use the story of Storyweaver, which was recognized with a 2023 Open Education Award for Excellence in the Open Repository category. At this time, StoryWeaver offers now over 64,000 stories in more than 370 languages spoken…
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Call me biases or maybe this is a recency effect, but this podcast about StoryWeaver was one of the most exciting and inspiring conversations I have been part of in this series. If you have not heard of or explored StoryWeaver, please stop reading this and go there
But as you will hear in the conversation with Purvi, in Pratham Books’ innovation 20 years ago to commit to openly publish storybooks for kids to read in their own language as their first back, powered StoryWeaver to grow to over 64000 published stories in 375 world languages.
This was not even the best highlight. I had asked Purvi to choose from all those stories a few of her favorites. She even read a selection to us, and it was not even until I was looking up the links to add to the episode, that I realized the story she read, What Will Today Bring? was written by our very own @chrissinerantzi – what could be the odds of that?
Listen to the podcast from OEGlobal Voices Episode 76 which is also available on YouTube.
Spend some time in StoryWeaver, find a story worth sharing or maybe one of their teaching resources, and let us know what you find.
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