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Determinants of Indigenous Student Learning with Digital Technology: A Qualitative Study

On February 23, 2018July 22, 2019 By moppenneer

Full Title: Determinants of Indigenous Student Learning with Digital Technology: A Qualitative Study in a Remote Manitoba First Nations Community Abstract The goal of this qualitative study was to identify the determinants that assist remote postsecondary Indigenous Canadian learners (in an isolated fly-in only community) to adapt and orient themselves […]

Indigitization: Toolkit for the Digitization of First Nations Knowledge

On January 22, 2018January 22, 2018 By moppenneer

The Indigitization Grant Program is a grant funding opportunity sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia1, Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, the University of Northern British Columbia, and the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies at UBC. The […]

aboriginal • British Columbia | Canada • digital artefacts • grants • indigenous communities • Indigitization • language | preservation

Anthwerrke (Emily Gap) Interactive Tour app

On October 8, 2017October 9, 2017 By moppenneer

Central Land Council Press Release: Traditional owners of Anthwerrke (Emily Gap) have invested their rent income from the Yeperenye/Emily and Jessie Gaps Nature Park in an interactive visitor experience at the sacred site near Alice Springs. They will launch the interactive tour with CLC chair Francis Kelly, the Member for […]

aboriginal • Anthwerrke • application • Arrernte • Australia • dreaming • Emily Gap • interactive • songline • tour • traditional owners

IRCA & the National Remote Indigenous Media Festival

On July 4, 2016 By moppenneer

The 2015 Festival was hosted by IRCA in partnership with PAW Media and Communications and the Lajamanu community with key partner Indigenous Community Television. For 5 days remote media workers and industry guests visited Gurindji and Warlpiri Country for an exciting industry program with skills workshops, roundtables, video screenings, live radio and TV […]

aboriginal • Australia • festival • indigenous

Local Contexts: Traditional Knowledge Labels

On June 30, 2016 By moppenneer

Local Contexts is an initiative to support Native, First Nations, Aboriginal, and Indigenous communities in the management of their intellectual property and cultural heritage specifically within the digital environment. Local Contexts provides legal, extra-legal, and educational strategies for navigating copyright law and the public domain status of this valuable cultural […]

aboriginal • cultural heritage • digital collections • digital environments • First Nations • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous communities • intellectual property • local contexts

Language app: FirstVoices Keyboard App

On May 27, 2016 By moppenneer

The latest ground-breaking FirstVoices innovation from the First Peoples’ Cultural Council is an Indigenous language keyboard app for Apple and Android mobile devices. The FirstVoices Keyboard App contains keyboard software for over 100 languages, and includes every First Nations language in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, plus many languages in […]

aboriginal • Australia • Canada • FirstVoices • indigenous language • keyboard • language | preservation • language app • multilingual • New Zealand

Indigenization of Knowledge Organization at the Xwi7xwa Library

On September 27, 2015 By moppenneer

This paper examines the Indigenization of knowledge organization within library and information studies through conceptual analysis and a descriptive case study of an Aboriginal academic library, the Xwi7xwa Library at the University of British Columbia, Canada. We begin by locating the library in place and time, review its historical development […]

2015 • aboriginal • Canada • First Nations • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous issues • libraries • Xwi7xwa

It’s like going to a cemetery and lighting a candle: Aboriginal Australians, Sorry Business and social media

On September 6, 2015April 29, 2017 By moppenneer

Death and funeral practices are a constant presence in many Aboriginal Australians’ lives—research in some communities found they are eight times more likely to have attended a funeral in the previous 2 years than non- Aboriginal people. This can be explained by two major factors: inordinately high rates of Aboriginal […]

2015 • aboriginal • Australia • death • funeral • social media • Sorry Business

The Wollotuka Project

On June 21, 2015 By moppenneer

This case study examines the key design features and methodology required to develop a website that best reflects the culture of an Indigenous Australian community. The study also considers general issues related to the representation and capture of Indigenous knowledge. The Wollotuka project is grounded in previous contextual design work. […]

2012 • aboriginal • community • design • indigenous design • participatory • Torres Strait Islander • user-centered • Wollotuka Institute

Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace: Empowering First Nations with New Media Technologies (AbTeC)

On June 21, 2015 By moppenneer

AbTeC is a network of academics, artists and technologists whose goal is to define and share conceptual and practical tools that will allow us to create new, Aboriginally-determined territories within the web-pages, online games, and virtual environments that we call cyberspace. Our multi-faceted effort will include a storytelling series, an […]

aboriginal • AbTeC • artists • cultural heritage • digital storytelling • empower • gaming • indigenous scholars • technology • video game

Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages

On November 4, 2014 By moppenneer

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages is an open access, online repository comprising digital versions of language materials produced in Literature Production Centres, language centres and other sources in Indigenous languages of the Northern Territory. The archive is continually expanding, and people are encouraged to engage with these materials. There […]

aboriginal • archive • Australia • digital collections • indigenous language • language | preservation • language map

Telling our Stories: Aboriginal young people in Victoria and Digital Storytelling

On September 23, 2014 By moppenneer

This project worked with Aboriginal youth under the age of 25 – an age group that forms the majority of the Aboriginal population in Victoria and is among the highest users of mobile phones, actively engaging in social media and other online platforms. With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, Aboriginal […]

2014 • aboriginal • Australia • digital • digital storytelling • identity • mobile • Victoria • youth

People, Place and Community Memory: Creating Digital Heritage Databases in Remote Aboriginal Communities

On September 13, 2014 By moppenneer

In this paper I describe the Northern Territory Library’s, Libraries and Knowledge Centres program and examine some of the ways that digital technologies are being used to improve local access to archival materials in remote Australian Aboriginal communities. The development of community heritage databases gives some communities the opportunity toconstruct […]

2008 • aboriginal • archive • Australia • cultural heritage • digital collections • indigenous communities • libraries • library database • revitalization

Indigenous Remote Communications Association (IRCA)

On September 12, 2014 By moppenneer

Indigenous Remote Communications Association (IRCA) is the peak body for remote Indigenous media and communications and was founded in 2001. IRCA is committed to building the capacity of the sector while also providing tools, networks and resources that help remote media workers build their skills, profile and performance. IRCA currently […]

aboriginal • Australia • community media • culture | preservation • indigenous communities • IRCA • language | preservation • remote regions

Linguists call for TV to save Aboriginal languages

On September 8, 2014 By moppenneer

Click image to see a larger version of the article. More articles by Geoff Maslen at The Age.

1986 • aboriginal • Australia • language | preservation • television • Torres Strait Islander

Making the Connection: Essays on Indigenous Digital Excellence

On August 6, 2014 By moppenneer

We all understand the power of being connected in the digital world, being on-line, with everything at our finger-tips. But what will it take to make the most of this opportunity when it comes to Indigenous Australia? This unique set of essays commissioned by the Telstra Foundation, shows how Aboriginal […]

2014 • aboriginal • Australia • digital divide • digital inclusion • Torres Strait Islander

Remediating sacred imagery on screens: Yolngu experiments with new media technology

On July 26, 2014 By moppenneer

When I first arrived in the Yolngu township of Galiwin’ku to undertake fieldwork for my doctoral thesis at the University of Melbourne and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, almost a decade ago to the day, a particular research question had been on my mind for some time. Over […]

2013 • aboriginal • archive • Australia • Galiwin’ku • GIKC • new media • Yolngu

Australian Aboriginal Virtual Heritage

On July 9, 2014 By moppenneer

Cultural knowledge is a central tenant of identity for Aboriginal people and it is vitally important that the preservation of heritage values happens. Digital Songlines is a project that seeks to achieve this and was initiated as a way to develop the tools for recording cultural heritage knowledge in a […]

2014 • aboriginal • Australia • cultural heritage • digital heritage • digital humanities • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge management • songline • virtual reality

A great debate: to show or not to show the Ngintaka songline exhibit – and who should decide?

On March 28, 2014 By moppenneer

Three articles that capture the current cultural debate around an Aborignal Australian songlines exhibit… Songlines project sparks indigenous culture war March 22, 2014, from a post written by Nicolaus Rothwell It seemed like a dream arts project for the remote western desert’s Aboriginal communities — a research and exhibition series […]

aboriginal • Australia • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Ngintaka • ownership • songline

Nyungar Knowledge Networks: an Aboriginal online encyclopedia

On March 1, 2014 By moppenneer

Excerpt from “New media to throw a lifeline to an ancient language” published February 11, 2014 on the University of Western Australia website. A new project will create the world’s first Aboriginal online encyclopedia as a way of preserving the ancient and endangered Noongar language – one of Australia’s biggest […]

aboriginal • Australia • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Nyungar / Noongar

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

On February 2, 2014 By moppenneer

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal. It aims to present indigenous worldviews from native indigenous perspectives. AlterNative is dedicated to the analysis and dissemination of native indigenous knowledge that uniquely belongs to cultural, traditional, tribal and aboriginal peoples as well as first-nations, from around […]

aboriginal • AlterNative • First Nations • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous issues • indigenous scholars • indigenous studies • interdisciplinary • Native American • research

Revitalizing Culture through Gaming: “Boundary Objects” and Properness in the Design of a Virtual Reality Game System

On January 1, 2014 By moppenneer

The Digital Songlines Environment (DSE) is a virtual reality game system aimed at preserving and promoting Australian Aboriginal heritage, arts and culture. The system features a realistic virtual landscape with local flora and fauna, embedding oral histories as well as mythological stories within its narratives and story line. Similar to […]

2011 • aboriginal • Australia • cultural heritage • database • gaming • myth • oral history • songline • video game • virtual reality

Digital Dynamics Across Cultures

On December 14, 2013 By moppenneer

Introduction (excerpt) Digital Dynamics Across Cultures re-imagines the work of anthropology in the age of digital reproduction, and, by extension, explores the cross-cultural implications of several seeming truisms of the electronic era. While the libertarian impulses and voices fueling the gold rush mentality of Silicon Valley’s dot.com period often insisted […]

2008 • aboriginal • anthropology • cultural protocols • multimedia • representation • reproduction • Vectors Journal • Warumungu

Ringbalin – River Stories: Ceremony and Indigenous Stories about the Murray Darling Basin

On December 7, 2013 By moppenneer

Come follow us: real world journeys with the oldest living cultures on earth to discover 40,000 years of history, knowledge and myth along Australia’s greatest rivers. In 2010 the Ringbalin, a group of Indigenous tribes reignited an ancient ceremony, a Ringbalin, travelling 2300km, dancing to save Australia’s Murray Darling Rivers […]

aboriginal • application • Australia • ceremony • digital storytelling • elder • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Murray Darling Rivers • Ringbalin

Centre for Social Partnerships in Lifelong Learning (SPiLL)

On November 13, 2013 By moppenneer

The Centre for Social Partnerships in Lifelong Learning SPiLL was established in 2007 to support and research the interagency and interdisciplinary relationships that enable effective learning in different disciplines, workplaces and training sites. SPiL is based at the Charles Darwin University. SPiLL’s research seeks to understand and enhance the ways […]

aboriginal • Australia • collaboration • education • ICTs • indigenous communities • indigenous studies • knowledge sharing / exchange • partnership • SPiLL

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