With funding assistance from the Goethe Institut, we have helped to roll out the Ulwazi Programme to township and rural schools in a bid to create opportunities to enhance ICT skills among the youth and generate interest in their own history and culture. The Ulwazi School’s project will be run at four township and rural …
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Teaching Digital Heritage (and a little bit of Internet Activism)
This semester I have been co-teaching two courses at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The first is through the programme of English Studies and looks at the development of heritage resources, using the example of the KZN Literary Tourism project. We deal with the development of writers trails, the research and writing of the author profiles, …
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Taking control of the medium
A core component of the Ulwazi Programme, which uses volunteer field-workers to collect indigenous knowledge and local history from their own communities, is the transference of digital skills. Many field-workers arrive at the Programme offices with limited ICT skills – some never having worked on a computer before – and we conduct a series of …
Sinomlando
The Ulwazi Programme has completed its first round of training with librarian and volunteer field-workers. This involved training on how to edit the wiki, where the indigenous knowledge is stored, and how to use the audiovisual equipment (cameras, digital recorders, etc.). The second phase of training, due to start next week, will involved Sinomlando providing …