Asian University Digital Resource Network

Presentations by Andy Dinakar and Sujatha Chandran

Dear Friends

We have uploaded the PowerPoint presentation that we presented on the first day of the workshop.

Comments and enquiries are welcome.

Andy Dinakar and Sujatha Chandran

SCILET, The American College,

Madurai, Tamilnadu, India

Download SCILET- DIGITAL INITIATIVE

Download SCILET DIGITAL LIBRARY-an overview

Narratives can be more useful than instruction manuals!

I encourage everyone to check out the narratives of Plateau project members that Gerald posted on 5/24.

It's true that our network needs to address the need for simple discovery, to share information about what digital tools and services are available, what they do, how to access them, and some suggestions and instructions on how to use them.

But maybe even more important are stories that establish the context, allow us to share in the processes that led to successful (and not-to-successful) outcomes, and, not least, help us to connect in a personal, emotional way to the work that we and others are doing.

--Avron

Presentations by Spencer Benson and David Kennedy

Hi, all! 

Professor Spencer Benson's presentation slides on Digital Tools - Digital Pedagogies - Digital  Learning:

Download Sbenson-UB-0509-digitallearning

And, Professor David Kennedy's two presentations:

21st Century Literacies for Education  (May 21 morning)

Download 21stCenturyLit_09

Learning Technology (May 21 afternoon)  Download LearningTech

Dear all, here is the powerpoint presentation Puhua and I showed on the first day during our poster session.

Download 00 PCI presentation Power Point Presentation

Here is the frontspiece for the journal the Plateau Culture Initiative will soon publish:

Download AHP 1 2009 pp1-6

And finally, below are two stories from our project members about their experience recording music in their villages. They also describe how they spent money from our small grants program that provides funds for members to spend when making recordings.

Hope everyone has arrived home safely.

Y'la (G.yu lha)

 

I received  1,000 RMB to record songs and stories in my hometown - Siyuewu Village, Puxi Township, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. I spent the money to buy gifts for singers and to rent a car to go to a nearby monastery. Altogether I visited twenty families, but in some families, nobody wanted to sing. I bought such gifts as salt, oil, rice, tea, sugar, and clothes for the people I recorded. They were very happy when they received the gifts and were willing to let me record them.

       Some of the people I recorded lived in poverty, and did not even have enough to eat. For example, I recorded an elderly childless couple. I recorded several songs from the woman who was 98 years old. I spent 570 RMB to buy gifts for this family – mostly oil, rice, and other basic necessities.

            Also, to thank six villagers for allowing me to record them, I rented a car and took them to a locally famous monastery, which all villagers aspire to visit.                                                               

 

Tashi Zangpo (Bkra shis bzang po)

I went to a village in Bang smad Township, Nyag rong Country, Dkar mdzes Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. I recorded eleven folk songs, three speeches, and five folk tales.

        I organized a party to which I invited four singers and two storytellers - five males and one female. I spent 2,000 RMB from the Plateau Music Project on three boxes of beer, and some other food for the party. I also gave fifty RMB to each singer and storyteller. 

        I spent three days in that village. I couldn’t record during the daytime because there was too much noise outside, so each night for three nights I waited until very late, around midnight, to start recording. Even though it was quiet then, I still faced difficulties. Sometimes a dog would bark and I would have to begin again. When I was collecting information about the songs and folktales the person I was asking often had no idea what I was asking, so I needed to ask many times in different ways. I usually finished recording at around four in the morning.

At the moment I am writing the song lyrics in Tibetan. The next thing I will do is put the songs online. When I return home, I will give all the performers CDs of the materials I recorded. 

Library Group Discussion

The library group found the need of building institution local knowledge repository for sharing resources and preservation. In order to do that we prospect an workshop held for librarians:

Workshop on Educational Technology to build Institution Repository and promoting the library through media digital.

Material :DSpace Training and Visual literacy and media workshop

We also want to keep in touch and connected through a sharing group online to share ideas and support each other online.

library group members: Aditya Nugrah(Liauw Toong Tjiek), Bich Chau,  Florence Chandran, Junglim Chae, Wanna Net, Dinakar, Li Xiaohong, Sujatha Chandran, Mayuree Yawilat, Umi Proboyekti

 

Being born into a new family

 

I approached my birthday with mixed feelings—being away from family and friends was not the best way to have a birthday.  However, I realized yesterday that having this birthday during the Workshop on Digital Humanities in Asia, was a very meaningful and significant way to celebrate my becoming a digital immigrant several years ago.  More importantly, this birthday means being born into a new family, the UBCHEA “digital humanists” who are now eager to bring all what we have learned into our own spheres of influence—as faculty, administrators, librarians, advocates.  I have learned so much from your sharing of experiences, expertise and reflections.  I thank for your generosity. 

I also realized the daunting responsibility I have in bridging the digital divide which is becoming wider in the Philippines.  I also see the possibilities of tapping local knowledge and global technologies (so many of them which I will eagerly discover when I aet home) to Miriam College’s advocacies of truth, peace, justice and integrity of creation.  With technology’s fast pace of development, I find myself grounded in the educational philosophy of lifelong learning  (Learning:  The Treasure Within, Delors, 1996) which emphasizes the four pillars of learning—learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together and learning to be.  This workshop has demonstrated how we can truly bring lifelong learning to our students, faculty, staff and to the communities we serve, and to various digital communities interested in digital humanities.

Thank you, Anne, Avron, Betty, Melanie, Iris, UBCHEA, resource speakers, and co-participants—my new family--for this life-changing experience, your birthday gift to me.

 

 

 

LINK of the workshop's picture, Day 2

Dear All, here is the link of the workshop photos, day 2. Hope you all enjoy the pictures. Follow this link to see the pictures

Plateau Culture Initiative

Hi everyone!

The Plateau Culture Initiative doesn't have its own website, but you can find information about the various sections in the links below-

Plateau Photographers - the website under the project's old name is here. One of our members has a Flickr stream here.

Plateau Music Project - the main site is here. The site is updated weekly. You can find PDFs in English and Chinese explaining the history and methodology of the project here.  We were featured on National Geographic here and we also have a Youtube channel here, though we haven't been able to update it recently. Most of the audio collections available at Digital Himalaya came from our project members. Finally, if you want to donate to your project, you can go here to make a donation.

Here is the personal blog page of one of our members - a site for preserving the unique culture from his community.

And here is a link to some films Puhua has made.

Hope you enjoy the links!

Gerald and Puhua

workshops and classrooms

How can we more effectively build bi-(multi)directional communication into our learning-directed activities--such as our presentations and workshop sessions (obviously this extends to the classroom, or even to the virtual classroom)? In other words: How do we make it more intrinsically/automatically interactive?

2009 5 21 - Building Capacity via Resource-sharing and Networking

 This session included presenters Chankil Park of Ewha Womans University, Umi Proboyekti of Duta Wacana Christian University, Indonesia, and Joel Yuvienco, Miriam College, Philippines. Umi, seeing that we needed a break, began her presentation by giving us a new kind of digital challenge – testing the coordination of our thumbs and pinkies as we hummed the tune she'd just taught us!  (It's harder than you think!  Try sticking your left pinkie finger and your right thumb to the left. Then, the opposite -  try pointing your left thumb and your right pinkie to the right.)    Thanks, Umi!

Chankil’s presentation featured the English Portal Asia, a database that is part of the Brain Korea Project.  It is a comprehensive database of resources on English language, literature, and linguistics.

Umi described the government-funded project in Yogyakarta that has enabled several university libraries to share resources. 

Joel Yuvienco spoke knowingly and lovingly of  Web 2.0 , folk knowledge, folksonomy, twitter, and edu20.org.   Joel, you're being followed!