Creation Mother - Avatar-based Indigenous Multimedia Intergenerational Culture Communication Project

J Barber; Juhani E Tuovinen

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Creation Mother - Avatar-based Indigenous Multimedia Intergenerational Culture Communication Project

J Barber and Juhani E Tuovinen

Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006, pp.2523-2529

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN), 2006 (Honolulu, United States, 15-Oct-2006–19-Oct-2006)

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

2006

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Cultural Studies

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.

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Title: Creation Mother - Avatar-based Indigenous Multimedia Intergenerational Culture Communication Project
Authors: J Barber (Author) - Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
Juhani E Tuovinen (Author) - Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
Contributors: Thomas C Reeves (Editor)
Shirley F Yamashita (Editor)
Publication details: Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006, pp.2523-2529
Conference details: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN), 2006 (Honolulu, United States, 15-Oct-2006–19-Oct-2006)
Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
Date published: 2006
ISBN: 1880094606
Copyright note: Copyright © 2006 AACE. Used with permission from the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Norfolk, VA. ELEARN: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, 2006. Creation Mother - Avatar-based Indigenous Multimedia Intergenerational Culture Communication Project by Barber, J, Tuovinen, J E. www.aace.org
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449760902621
Output Type: Conference paper

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