Six Aboriginal dreaming stories with audio and video. These stories are told to children to teach them about their ancestors, the spirit world and their place in that world. These six stories from Northern Australia tell of creatures such as mermaids, devil-devils, whistle ducks and blue-tongue lizards. Each story is both sung in a song cycle and spoken by traditional storytellers and in some stories associated song cycles are shared.Listen to the stories in the audio versions and see photos of the communities and the children’s illustrations in the on-line features.
Uluru by Vincent Forrester - his spiritual legacy to his children and grandchildren is to tell the stories.
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Story telling and prediction video
Written on October 23, 2010 – 3:39 am | by Shelly Terrell
Jason Renshaw, @EnglishRaven, has challenged educators to complete several “teaching unplugged” tasks. This refers to the Dogme theory of teaching that supports teaching language in a way that is conversation driven, materials light, and dependent upon emergent language. Ironically, the lesson I chose to replicate did not involve technology either, which I am not sure is intentional on Jason’s part. Jason’s recent The Wandrous Whiteboard Challenge is quite simple to try with no technology. I love integrating technology effectively in my lessons, but I’m not glued to it and I try to give my students a mixture of lessons with and without technology. What attracted me to Jason’s recent suggestion was that in its simplicity it checked all the right boxes- the preparation was minimal, the students provided the ideas, the students applied their learning, and it was very student centered with me acting as a facilitator.
Audacity is a powerful sound editing tool. With this program you can record and edit your own audio tracks for narrations, music, recorded lectures, etc. In this self help document, you will learn to record, play, and save an audio file using this program.
Great complete lesson on bullfighting. Lots of ideas, vocab, comprehension, intermediate level.
"WordPowered brings together teachers of English from a
variety of backgrounds by using short stories, poetry and film.
The project offers a place where creative reading and creative
writing can intermingle.
Each part of the project is work in progress and each part requires the active
participation of teachers and their students to help develop a full set of
resources. There are five parts to the project:"
"The rammed earth building technique dates back thousands of years. In fact, Spain's famous 900-year-old Alhambra was built using this method.
Now this ancient building process has caught the attention of the Department of Housing in Western Australia and they are going to trial it in a remote community.
But it is soft, dry an dusty earth on demand in Nyirrpi."