Panc

Pancultural-e diary of events.

Arrived back in Alice tired and inspired last week [8/4]. Great to visit Darwin in 'the wet' again and feel the rain! and meet the other Learnscope Staff and Team members. Also it was a great open atmosphere to air views, like that pun?, ask questions and generally make connections

Okay, so now the work begins. The line's been running hot between Georgina, Li Ting and Moi as we pull the threads together from Darwin, float ideas and get re-acquainted with the software platforms we'll be collaborating on/with; Moodle, elluminate, Blogspots, Wiki's, Instant Messaging a nifty 'ARED' tool and etc, etc.

Sat in at IAD for an Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Program [ACAP] last week [12/4]delivered by Pat Dodds. A great session with a stimulating audience mix: Indigenous Australians, Muslim and Europeans. It was good to attend to:
[1] get re-acquainted with the source material we'll be using to help construct the projects.
[2] enjoy the delivery and the banter that Pat always draws from participants
[3] get some mp4 video, photos and mp3 audio files for file. We'll be using these as test material when we start running the Pancultural-e workshops for the staff at IAD Fri 20/4.
Met with IAD Board Fri 13/4 and am pleased to say we have their full support. And given their 'demographic' [thanks Surya Silva] it's great that they understand the Pancultural-e concept and it's potential.

Short meet with all the team members this week and we are ready for our first online session with Georgina this Friday 20/4. We'll have a round table talk before going online just to get the neurons firing, foster input generally and to float the idea of breaking the ACAP program into manageable chunks. This will be less daunting when we can each go off and do our individual research.

The ACAP program has about 12 separate sections so on our first meeting we'll get team members to select an area they're interested [e.g. Family, Kinship, Language etc]. From there we treat it as a research topic and members populate powerpoint presentations with material they are able to find. The idea is to use this as source as we commence construction of the mp3 and mp4 podcasts and look at how we may use it towards online delivery of ACAP.

We've also scheduled in a brainstorming session aimed at adding a bit of spice to Pat's delivery. So we'll be looking for ACAP related activities, puzzles, quizzes and the like that Pat can use during delivery to engage participants. Delivery is f2f and includes a bus tour of selected Indigenous sites around Alice.
To learn more about this and other NT Learnscope 2007 projects please visit http://ntlearnscope2007.wikispaces.com/IAD