Week 4 Dust Echoes- Ancient Stories, New Voices

In today's workshop we looked at the website Dust Echoes- Ancient Stories, New Voices. www.abc.net.au/dustechoes

This website focussed on Aboriginal stories from the past. They have been re-created digitally and spoken by Aboriginal people. There are twelve animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land. Each story tells about stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and laws.

Each of the twelve stories come with study guides for the teacher. It has information about the story, the background of the story, photos, suggested classroom activities and worksheets. The website also includes a helpful glossary for both students and teacher's to use to clarify their understanding.

If using this website a ffew things need to be taken into consideration. The age of the students, it may not be suitable for juniour school as it has some confronting issues, also teacher's need to be aware of which videos the students are watching and ensure they are appropriate.

This website would be really great to use in the class to discover more about the Aboriginals customs and way of life.

For the workshop we were expected to use Inspration to create a concept map that retells one of the stories. You were to include the important aspects of the story including images and speech.