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Marg: Past Outstanding Alumni of the Year Recipient
So inspiring for Marg, as a past recipient, to attend this year’s QUT Outstanding Alumni of the Year awards ceremony with QUT Dean of Education, Wendy Patton, today. Tracey Vieira, CEO of Screen Australia, is the Faculty of Education winner. ‘Unbroken’ directed by Angeline Jolie being her latest coup. Greg Creed was overall winner with special…
Read MoreDiscussions with LR school deputy
Lockhart River School deputy and Literacy specialist, Sue, and HAR Marg exchange ideas about teaching reading to children who speak languages other than English at home. Deputy Principal of Lockhart River School, Sue, calls in for a chat with HARs Marg about literacy, Honey Ant Readers and the importance of early learning in first languages.
Read More“I’m busy reading my ebook, just a moment please!”
Read MoreMarg James getting ‘wired-up’ by Imparja TV in Alice Springs.
Read MoreSara-Lee Uses an Interactive Whiteboard to teach in Walpiri
After lots of hard, but rewarding work, including having to re-edit and then re-record the Warlpiri HAR books .. it fantastic is to be able to share this photo of dedicated teacher, Sara-Lee, teaching from the Warlpiri HAR Book 3 on an interactive whiteboard!
Read MoreEngrossed in our new Apps with Jessica Mauboy
So exciting launching our first educational Honey Ant Reader Apps with Jessica Mauboy today! A young student, keen on improving her score playing our new card game. It is based on the Honey Ant Readers flash cards, which reinforce the learning in the early readers.
Read MoreHoney Ant Readers go Digital and Interactive!
Congratulations and ENORMOUS thanks to Timothy Butler for developing our amazing first educational Honey Ant Readers apps. Judging by today’s overwhelmingly positive reaction this is going to make a significant impact on the students’ learning! We are all terribly excited by this development! Jessica Mauboy really enjoyed it and said she loved seeing the student’s confidence rise as they…
Read MoreStories from the People of Lockhart River in their Creole
Elder and Councilor, Dorothy Hobson, shares her graphic stories about cultural life in Lockhart River. 2 young Mums, Grieta and Larissa, tell stories in Creole about life in Lockhart River when they were at school; of mischief they got up to; of camping trips; and of going out bush with the ‘old people’ to collect…
Read MoreThe Lockhart Team who Made it Possible
What a great group of people to work with! A lively photograph of some of the team of people involved in the new Lockhart stories – story tellers, illustrators, linguist, childcare workers, librarian and more….THANK YOU! It was absolutely wonderful visiting your community.
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