Intention: I called up my dream of the Wadja woman. My intention was to meet her.

Someone has designed a multimedia game. It’s very interesting. It’s designed for children.


The game is actually educational - it’s purpose seems to be to engage students in learning about Aboriginal culture. There are different sections, each focusing on different aspects of Aboriginal life. I get the sense of a folder, organised into a number of different files/sections.

There’s one particular activity that I observe.

There’s something interesting about the interaction that’s been programmed into the activity. I see that the children are supposed to drag different characters into particular positions - the objects seem to lock into place when moved to the correct spot on the screen. It reminds me of this game built into Microsoft Encarta, that some students were showing me at the last school/holiday care program I worked at.

I see that the objects being moved are more like characters - characters I think or understand are “Aunty’s and Uncles” - Aboriginal elders. I can almost feel their presence there - their character seems to come across through the screen, and yet they are not real photos of people - rather they are iconic representations. The design is clean and outlines are emphasised.

I am thinking that this is a great game, and am almost considering “copying” it in some way.

Later in the same dream, I hear the words

“The last of the last of the last of the Melbourne relation-ships”

Comments:
I felt fascination & excitement at these new ideas

What an interesting dream. Now I wanna make that software. It strikes me that it’d be a great way of bringing the Indigenous voice into the classroom. You could make software where the voices of the elders were actually a part of activities. This software seemed to have a really interesting focus on developing students skills in the area of multi-literacies.

Later I reentered the dream while lying down - with the basic question “who’s it aimed at?”. I saw a continuum, with the levels 3-4 highlighted (Level 3 was covered entirely, and 4 some of the way).

It made me think of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards used in teaching in Melbourne.