Journeys
Digital Stories about migration and settlement expands adult learning to incorporate IT literacy for culturally diverse women during Adult Learners’ Week 07
Digital Stories – a one-day IT literacy skills course for women from diverse cultural backgrounds – took a fresh look at adult learning by broadening the learning boundaries to incorporate visual, digital media, copyright of digital media and historical heritage.
The Connect OUT project ran this digital storytelling workshop on September 3 at Hewitt House Neighbourhood Centre in Guildford to promote that learning IT skills can be fun and a source of self discovery, reflection and validation of one’s experiences. Each digital story was centred around the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse women’s experiences of arriving and settling in Australia. Participants from Iran, Maritius and Bangladesh incorporated archival photos of their families and countries of origin, wrote stories and narrated them into a computer.
They learned how to use ICE’s mobile laptops to record speech; to upload, arrange and edit images into digital stories, giving them a unique opportunity to express their stories through images. The also learned about copyright issues in using images that are not their own, and the costs associated with purchasing computer equipment and obtaining software.
This was the first time the participants had been able to articulate their personal journeys to Australia in a visual medium.
This project was funded by Adult Learners’ Week 2007
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