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Recording and Using Video in Language Documentation with Ben Levine and Julia Schulz.
Margaret has been learning invaluable skills for HARs language and teaching documenting work, under the well known video artist and documentary filmmaker, Ben Levine and his assistant Julia Schulz, from Maine, UAS, on their course “Recording and Using Video in Language Documentation”. Ben’s work has been seen at the Museum of Modern Art, Boston Museum…
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Consent, Rights, and Intellectual Property
Consent, Rights, and Intellectual Property, a very informative course delivered by Dr Susan Smythe Kung, archive manager at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America – AILLA – at CoLang, being held at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. HARs Margaret (in yellow top!) gained a lot of insight on the subjects and was inspired by…
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New HAR iPad activities cause a stir
Using paints on canvas is one thing, using a finger on a screen is a whole new extension of that artistic expression. One that appeals to the young people in Warakurna, WA. So exciting to witness our new iPad activities in use! Thanks to the talented Mark Gillow for developing them for HARs.
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Elder from the Dine/Navajo tribe meets HARs
Leroy Morgan is an Elder and experienced high school teacher from the Dine/Navajo tribe who is working passionately to preserve his language and culture. What a privilege to be at the beautiful Fairbanks campus of the University of Alaska and to meet, and learn from wonderful linguists working all over the world. People who carry generations…
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HARs at University of Alaska
We are very excited that our author, Margaret James, is one of 125 linguists world-wide to be attending the Institute on Collaborative Language Research at the University of Alaska. The institute is designed to provide an opportunity for community language activists and linguists to receive training in community-based language documentation and revitalization. The many native Alaskans, Canadians and…
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A teacher from the Warakurna Campus in WA
A teacher from the Warakurna Campus in WA shares her thoughts on the HAR memory games. “I love the matching game, my kids always play this game and they call it ‘same same’. The three children in the lower group were all having a turn sitting there and clapping their hands for each other getting really…
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Respect for Ngaanyatjarra Lands School staff
We love visiting the Ngaanyatjarra Lands School and it’s 8 campuses across the Northern Territory and Western Australia, and have a lot of respect for the staff. They travel vast distances on red, dusty roads and keep in touch online to assist where needed while providing the best education to their students. It takes on average…
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Ngaanyatjarra Audio Books
Nana Margaret uses the Ngaanyatjarra Audio Book to read ‘Nana Dig’ with students in their own language. The students followed the ‘first language’ listening and reading activity with a fun session reading in English using the interactive eBooks, and then writing their own stories in their own HAR writing books.
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** Honey Ant Readers response to newspaper article **
We thank all the wonderful people from across the country and beyond, who have emailed or called us to offer their support for our ongoing important work, in the face of the misleading and extremely hurtful accusations in the newspaper recently, all of which we categorically deny. We have no idea where the unsubstantiated and distorted…
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