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RISE Scenario Development Competition 2026 — Briefing
Interactive guide to the RISE framework, competition rules and design decisions.
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3Issues covered
5Contributions
23Videos (85.9 min)
2PDF documents
25Transcripts
240 MBHosted bundle
What is "Plug and Play"? A STiLE scholarship category of ready-to-use teaching objects — video mini-lessons, flipped interview sets, narrated explainers with Kahoot quizzes, and lesson handouts — that language practitioners can drop straight into their own courses. Every item except №79 was published video-first, with no PDF galley.
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023)
邏輯重音──有聲語言表達手機微課 (Logical Stress — Mobile Micro-lesson)
Tao Ren (HKUST) · 15 Mar 2023 · DOI 10.59936/stile.v1i1.79 · Putonghuapronunciationportrait 720×1280
Summary. Two Mandarin micro-lessons on logical stress (邏輯重音): a 26-second video abstract explaining the interactive workflow (watch → self-record → listen-and-compare), and a 6-minute chaptered slide-deck lesson drilling the concept with worked sentence examples. Portrait, mobile-first, chalk-style icons and a hand-drawn sun mascot.
Annotation. The only text-free contribution: video-only publishing. Analysis. Mobile-first micro-learning — short, self-contained, production-oriented (learner records and compares). The choral phrase-drilling trips up ASR, so its transcript reads as a lesson script. A model of minimal, single-concept micro-lectures.
Accurate Use of Schwa in British English
Ryan Windsor (Lingnan University) · 15 Mar 2023 · DOI 10.59936/stile.v1i1.80 · British Englishschwacartoon avatar
Summary. A two-part video series plus Padlet page. Part 1 trains perception/production of /ə/ in polysyllabic words; part 2 contrasts stressed and unstressed words at sentence level. Learners upload their own recordings to Padlet, which becomes an archive of learner productions.
Annotation. Near-static cartoon presenter with speech bubble and giant phoneme glyphs (e → ə) on a flat patterned background. Analysis. A perception→production→community-output arc in under 9 minutes; the Padlet upload turns private practice into a peer-visible corpus. Closest STiLE item to what our videoGen pipeline can already generate.
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2024)
Creative Problem Solving and Communication in Entrepreneurship
Yan Xia (PolyU) · 29 Jul 2024 · DOI 10.59936/stile.v2i1.162 · flipped learningpresenter + slides · lesson-plan PDF
Summary. Nine interview videos with four local young entrepreneurs packaged as four flipped plug-and-play sets (Creative Problem Solving ×2, Persuasive Communication ×2), each following 40-min pre-class prep → 20-min in-class warmer → existing materials. The PDF documents the design and lesson plans.
Interview 1 — communication skills (3:16) ·
transcriptInterview 2 — discovering your niche (4:53) ·
transcript
All 9 interviews + PDF + remaining transcripts
| File | Length | Links |
|---|
| 162-submission.pdf (design + lesson plans) | — | PDF · text |
| 162-submission03 — creative problem solving (cont.) | 4:50 | video · transcript |
| 162-submission05 — pitching / judges | 5:42 | video · transcript |
| 162-submission06 — sustainability & strategy | 4:43 | video · transcript |
| 162-submission07 — business language use | 4:30 | video · transcript |
| 162-submission08 — start-up questions | 5:21 | video · transcript |
| 162-submission09 — origin story / proposal | 3:46 | video · transcript |
| Interviews 1 (01), 2 (02) & 4 (04) are embedded above; interviews 3–9 and all transcripts are linked here. (Video 04 was used as the embedded sample of the presenter+slides format; the full set 01–09 is in the article folder.) |
Annotation. Live talking-head (bokeh background) on ~25% of frame, animated icon slide panel beside it, section title cards, music bed with on-screen credit. Analysis. Authentic HK start-up testimony converted into flipped input; interviews average 4–6 min — within pre-class homework attention span. The visual system is consistent across all nine videos, i.e. a reusable template — exactly what our split-presenter template should replicate.
Multimodal Modules for Language Proficiency Enhancement
Michelle Tam, Eva Li, Agnes Tsang, Evangeline Hung (CityU HK) · 27 Sep 2024 · DOI 10.59936/stile.v2i1.167 · EAP grammarPowToon whiteboardKahoot
Summary. Four interactive grammar micro-modules for first-year EAP writing students — Asking Questions in English, Complex Noun Phrases, Making Comparisons, Singular or Plural — each a ~5-min whiteboard explainer paired with a live Kahoot challenge quiz (links embedded in the narrated abstract).
Narrated abstract with QR codes (1:12) ·
transcriptModule 2 — Complex Noun Phrases (5:02) ·
transcript
Modules 3–4 + transcripts
Annotation. PowToon whiteboard style: a real hand writes the title stroke-by-stroke, cartoon character + colour-coded question marks, wipe transitions, ends on "Let's practice". PowToon watermark visible in frame. Analysis. Motivation is the stated problem (non-credit-bearing course), so grammar is gamified into watch-then-quiz modules. This is the item that makes the PowToon-replication question urgent — see the open-source analysis below.
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025)
"Sorry to interrupt you there, but could you engage in more authentic spontaneous real-time discussions in EAP?"
Richard Nickalls (Lingnan University) + actors · 20 Jan 2025 · DOI 10.59936/stile.v4i1.179 · live actionoral assessment · lesson handout PDF
Summary. Two deliberately contrastive discussion videos — an ineffective one (scripted monologue, awkward interruptions, disengaged participants) versus an effective one (eye contact, turn-taking, polite interruption) — plus a five-task lesson handout: pair-work intro, video comparison, preparation-performance link, strategy identification, personal reflection.
Video abstract — author interview (1:06) ·
transcriptVideo 1 — ineffective discussion (2:42) ·
transcriptVideo 2 — effective discussion (2:26) ·
transcript
Annotation. Live-action campus filming, black title cards with funding + credits, humour and exaggeration by design. Analysis. Negative-exemplar pedagogy: students diagnose failure before success. The handout PDF makes this the most classroom-ready item — and the only one teaching discussion process rather than language form. Live action is the one STiLE template our TTS pipeline cannot generate; treat as an "import your own footage" track.
Replicating PowToon with open-source tools
№167's whiteboard style (hand writes text stroke-by-stroke, cartoon props, wipe transitions) is the key target. GitHub offers no single "open-source PowToon", but the effect decomposes into three parts — SVG stroke drawing animation, scene composition/timeline, and video rendering — each with mature open-source options:
Recommendation. Don't adopt a full PowToon clone. Add a whiteboard-write scene type to our existing deck pipeline using CSS/SVG stroke reveal (works with the current freeze/capture logic), and keep Motion Canvas as the fallback if we later need true frame-accurate hand-drawn motion. Remotion is the industry standard but its license and React stack would replace, not extend, our current pipeline.