Creation Mother - Avatar-based Indigenous Multimedia Intergenerational Culture Communication Project
PROCEEDINGS
John Barber, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Institution, Australia ; Juhani Tuovinen, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Australia
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-60-0 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), San Diego, CA
Abstract
Many Australian Indigenous communities are losing significant cultural knowledge when young people are not able to learn the cultural stories in their own language. Thus the communities need to employ innovative methods to transmit cultural knowledge across generations. The cultural story of the 'Creation Mother' was captured and expressed in a novel new Avatar-based multimedia program, which overcomes important cultural restrictions, while promoting healthy child rearing practices and providing a motivational learning environment for the young mothers. The process of creating this story enabled numerous new important multiple literacy skills to be developed among the community members.
Citation
Barber, J. & Tuovinen, J. (2006). Creation Mother - Avatar-based Indigenous Multimedia Intergenerational Culture Communication Project. In T. Reeves & S. Yamashita (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2006--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 2523-2529). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved December 14, 2019 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/24086/.
© 2006 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
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