Limmud-Oz is a major Australian Jewish community-wide conference and festival celebrating Jewish learning and creativity, which began in 1999 and alternates between Sydney and Melbourne. It is a unique, volunteer-led, cross-communal and multi-generational event, catering for the broad diversity of opinions within the wider Jewish community. Hand in Hand: Aboriginal and Jewish People Working Together Jennifer Hillman, Josef McDonald, Raymond Minniecon, Anne Sarzin, Lisa Sarzin, Jennifer Symonds, Gaye White Aboriginal and Jewish people in NSW are working together on many inspiring projects. The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies commissioned Dr Anne Sarzin and Lisa Sarzin to research and write a book about these projects and the people involved. Anne and Lisa spoke about the book and introduced some of the Aboriginal and Jewish people involved in some of these uplifting projects such as the Dot Com Mob founded by Robert Magid. Limmud-Oz is just one of over 50 similar events under the umbrella of Limmud International , which is at the forefront of a revolution in global Jewish education and thinking, and is creating a learned, open, dynamic and respectful community. Limmud worldwide attracts over 32,000 people annually and continues to see unprecedented growth, even while more traditional community institutions suffer from decreasing numbers.
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Children's Picture Diaries 23 to 26 March 2009 was a busy week at Hope Vale with all classes from the Hope Vale State School involved at the IKTC. These sessions included; self portraits – who we are, landscapes – where we live and making prints of what we like to do. The children enjoyed the week and they were very focused on what they were doing, well done to all the children. It is so wonderful to hear our children say and know that their artwork is in the State Library and hopefully one day they will travel to Brisbane and see their artwork. Huge thanks to Principal Leanne Rayner, teachers, teachers aids and especially the students. We were also privileged to have our Art & Culture staff to assist us, a wonderful experience of witnessing community artists work with students, thanks to Evelyn McGreen, Dorothy Rosendale, Wanda Gibson, Grace Rosendale and Roberta Bowen. Mayor Greg McLean also came into the IKTC to encourage and support the students and he states that he would like to see some of the artwork to be on t-shirts, tea-towels and other memorabilia; we will certainly look into that. From Shirley Costello IKTC Coordinator The Dot.Com.Mob wants you to check out their new YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/dotcommob Watch Robert Magid explain the history of the Dot.Com.Mob as well as a selection of other videos by the Mayor of Hope Vale, Greg McLean, the State Library of Qld and videos made by members of the Hope Vale community and uploaded to YouTube. Please subscribe to our channel, so you can keep up with the latest progress of helping Indigenous people, living in remote locations, have access to the Internet so they might participate in opportunities that simply did not exist before. The Rotary Club of Sydney Cove's Indigenous Community Benevolent Fund has been hard at work participating in a number of initiatives in Northern Australia. You will all be aware of the efforts to date of Andy Buttfield at Baniyala to improve the lot of that community in a variety of ways. Ably assisted by Robert Bradshaw, he is up there again right now contuning his push on the educational front.
Our Indigenous activities have been expanded recently by partnering with the Dot Com Mob and their prinipal benefactor the Magid Foundation in helping to develop a number of community learning centres in Cape York. Working with the Queensland State Library and other supporters such as WorkVentures, Corporate Express, Internet facilities and computing skills are being upgrades at 18 remote locations in Queensland. The objective is to attract the locals, particularly the younger ones, to the process of learning via aspects of the World Wide Web that truly interest them - such as musical and sporting sites, blogs, FaceBook and YouTube. These projects also harness the power of peer involvement by first getting a few people onto the Net and then using them as role models to attract others. Each centre is run by the local community council so they have ownership and thus want to take care of it and improve it themselves. To get a taste of what is being achieved by the combined effots of a few dedicated people, we suggest you visit the site links below: www.dotcommob.org www.youtube.com/user/dotcommob The Dot Com Mob is actively supporting the resourcing of technology centres in remote Indigenous communities in partnership with the State Library of Qld. These centres are called Indigenous Knowledge and Technology Centres.
The Internet can help overcome the disadvantage experienced by students living in remote locations and the latest offering from the State Library is an example of this. The State Library of Queensland has recently purchased a state-wide licence for Yourtutor. Any member of the public with a library card can log-in with their library bar-code to receive free online support completing homework, assignments or preparing for exams. IKC administrators are encouraged to promote this free service to members of their communities. Simply follow the links and choose your IKC location (e.g. Torres Strait Island Regional Council) and you will be placed in line to receive support from a live tutor - a real person! https://connect.yourtutor.com.au/list.aspx How exciting to see the Hope Vale community now has its own YouTube page!!
Young people from the community have created a series of digital stories which they have posted up on the page. Listen to their songs or hear their personal stories which provides a fantastic insight to life in Hope Vale - from a community perspective. The community page is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/HopeValecommunity Hon Lindy Nelson-Car, MP, Minister for Communities, Disability Services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Multicultural Affairs, Seniors and Youth visited the recently opened Indigenous Knowledge and Technology Centre in Hope Vale to meet with elders and hear about the language recording project. The Minister was accompanied by Michael Hogan, the Assistant Director-General, Dept of Communities. |