Indigenous Engagement Blog

Successful Showcase for 2007

The Indigenous Engagement end of year forum had a stand out attendance with 150 people from various organisations and communities across Australia.

Guests had an opportunity to experience how real examples of technology are being used to engage Indigenous people in education and training across Australia.

The event also provided an opportunity to experience testimonials and presentations from each of our six national projects with a hand on approach to the e-learning resources developed and being implemented throughout the year.

These included virtual class rooms, digital stories; video conferencing, creation of blogs used as an RPL assessment and knowledge gathering tool and pod casting to name a few.

Feedback given from the days event was that the forum through its projects provided a very informative and confirming flexible approach to training and that it is all about the quality and meaningful partnerships between RTO’s and communities that this project has developed.

Project Manager Rhonda Appo congratulated each team on the success of the Forum and said “it is great to see that out of these projects has emerged a number of Indigenous leaders equipped with the skills and confidence to continue on the good work into the future”

Key note speakers were Metta Young from the Centre of Appropriate Technologies in Alice Springs and Stephen Hagan NAIDOC person of the year in 2006 and esteemed author presentaiton can be accessed here:http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go/home/projects/2007/indigenous2007/pid/237