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Archive for the ‘Miromaa’ CategoryFree ClipartFriday, May 16th, 2008 by adminWiliam Poser recently posted on ILAT a website collection of free clipart, I have done a quick search and easily found some Australian wildlife as an example, not the Koala, but others, so it maybe resourceful to some. Weblink: http://www.wpclipart.com Miromaa 3 - “Using technology to save our native languages” - NEW RELEASE, NEW WAY TO GET IT.Monday, April 14th, 2008 by adminAs you may or may not know, Australia’s traditional languages are the most at risk in the world to disappear, somewhere in the world every 2 weeks a native language disappears.
Did you also know that 2008 is the International Year of Languages.
At Arwarbukarl CRA (ACRA) we have been developing a program called Miromaa over the last 3 years, currently this program is supporting language maintenance work in over 25 communities in Australia. One of the programs biggest features is that it empowers Aboriginal people to work directly on our native languages, this in turn should help build up the number of people supporting Language Revival, Our Elders, Linguist’s and other Academics in the unlocking of our languages many secrets, but most importantly to stop language loss.
So ACRA is pleased to release our newly developed 3rd evolution of Miromaa, now known as Miromaa3, it has now been redeveloped from the ground up on a totally new development platform.
Please have a look at a sneak preview that we released some months back at http://www.arwarbukarl.net.au/blog/?p=69 You can now view screenshots of the program and its features at http://www.arwarbukarl.com.au/default.aspx?id=153
Now, for the biggest change of at all, we have now introduced a secondary method of obtaining Miromaa. · If you are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person working directly on maintaining a traditional language you may be able to receive Miromaa3 at no cost.· If you are Language Centre working directly with the maintenance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages you may be able to receive Miromaa3 at no cost.· If you are a Linguist, Researcher or other Academic working directly with Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people in the maintenance of their traditional language you may be able to receive Miromaa3 at no cost. Further information on how to obtain the program can be found here http://www.arwarbukarl.com.au/default.aspx?id=157 We hope that you view this new program and opportunities of obtaining Miromaa3 favourably and that you continue to support the empowering of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in being able to directly work in the maintenance of our traditional languages. How to Make a Dictionary with Miromaa & Lexique Pro - Video TutorialsWednesday, February 6th, 2008 by adminOne of the major goals for any language program/activity is to produce a dictionary, but this can be a painstaking task, we ourself have experienced this pain and have now thought to share with you how we produced our own Awabakal dictionary using Miromaa to gather the language and Lexique Pro to produce the dictionary using the MDF standard. To do this we have produced a 10 part series of online video tutorials that we have placed on our website for everyone to view, they cover all of the basic steps needed to get your first dictionary completed with as less pain as possible. I do not profess to be a professional at producing these so if you hear me sneeze or cough in the middle of a clip, just excuse me. The clips can be viewed in our Miromaa Learning Centre, just scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link to enter. Feedback is also most welcome. Miromaa 3 Sneak PreviewThursday, January 24th, 2008 by adminHi Everyone, You may or may not have heard about the computer program “Miromaa” that we have developed. For those that have not here is a quick brief: Miromaa is a computer program which is aimed at empowering Indigenous people to enable us to best utilise technology in the task of researching, recording, reclaiming and disseminating our traditional languages. It enables us to be hands on in the preservation and revitalisation of our languages. Well, we are proud to now give you all a sneak preview of Miromaa 3, this is our major revised version developed on the .Net platform. The program still has all of the great features of before but now with a new fresher layout to make using Miromaa even easier. The program enforces good archive practise and helps you gather any and all evidences of language including, text, audio, images and video. You can also use it to store your digitised documents for example pdf and Word documents, Excel spreadsheets plus more. It has a secure environment which can only be accessed by username and password, it can help you work on multiple languages or dialects and it also has a learning area where you can begin learning immediately. The program can run on either a stand-alone desktop or on a network and you are not just limited to using Miromaa only as the program has the ability to export its data in various forms including SIL Shoebox/Toolbox text file format, Lexique Pro text file format, Microsoft Word, tables and more. Please add your thoughts below as we would love to hear them. So, to get on with it here is the link to the preview site: http://www.arwarbukarl.net.au/miromaa/Preview/Preview.html You will need a broadband connection to view the Shockwave video For further information about Miromaa 2 please visit here: http://www.arwarbukarl.com.au/default.aspx?id=153 For further information about Arwarbukarl CRA visit here: http://www.arwarbukarl.com.au/ Free image reference materialWednesday, November 21st, 2007 by adminI have come across this website http://morguefile.com/ which houses royalty free images. These could certainly be used for producing multimedia resources for language materials. I just did a quick search for koala and it returned some very nice images, to how much other Australian flora and fauna appears I dont know, but the website is certainly worth a look. |
17th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Conference and
Western Symposium on Language Issues (WeSLI)
June 17th - 20th, 2010
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Miromaa is developed from funding received by the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.
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