2024 S2 Reading Effectively and Creatively

General forums Forum Description Discussions Unread posts Track Subscribed Email digest type RSS Announcements Announcements In the Announcements Forum, the teaching staff will make unit-wide announcements. These will mostly concern administrative matters (Please note: Students cannot post in this forum). All participants are subscribed to this forum and will automatically receive email notification ... 32 1 Yes Yes Default (Subjects only) General Discussion Forum 53 5 Default (Subjects only) Learning forums Section Forum Description Discussions Unread posts Track Subscribed Email digest type RSS Week 1 - Welcome ABST1000 Online Flexible Week 1 Forum Each week you'll need to complete a tutorial activity in the weekly forum. This week you are asked to answer the following: 1. Introduce yourself and your positionality - include your pronouns, your degree of study and what you are hoping to learn this semester. Please also include the ... 70 0 Default (Subjects only) ABSX1000 OUA Week 1 Forum Each week you'll need to complete a tutorial activity in the weekly forum. This week you are asked to answer the following: 1. Introduce yourself and your positionality - include your pronouns, your degree of study and what you are hoping to learn this semester. Please also include the Indigenous ... 16 0 Default (Subjects only) Week 2 - Truth Telling & Myth Busting ABST1000 Online Flexible Week 2 Forum Watch and listen to the video by Briggs about the Australian National Anthem. Read the lyrics of the anthem here. Can you bust any myths in the anthem? What are some other myths about Australia that are 'common knowledge'? Use evidence to support your claims. 73 0 Default (Subjects only) ABST100X OUA Week 2 Forum Watch and listen to the video by Briggs about the Australian National Anthem. Read the lyrics of the anthem here. Can you bust any myths in the anthem? What are some other myths about Australia that are 'common knowledge'? Use evidence to support your claims. 1 0 Default (Subjects only) Week 3 - Writing and Speaking about Indigenous Peoples ABST1000 Online Flexible Week 3 Forum Activity: Respond to the following three prompts/questions Why is language and terminology important? Did you know who Macquarie University was named after? Or how he treated Dharug people? This week, have a look around your local area. Who are the streets and buildings named after? Who are ... 105 - Default (Subjects only) ABSX1000 OUA Week 3 Forum Activity: Respond to the following three prompts/questions Why is language and terminology important? Did you know who Macquarie University was named after? Or how he treated Dharug people? This week, have a look around your local area. Who are the streets and buildings named after? Who are the ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) Week 4 - Settler Colonialism and Settler Colonial Violence Week 4 Online Flexible Forum Patrick Wolf (2006) argues that settler colonialism is a structure designed to eliminate Indigenous people and ways of life, and replace them with settlers and their systems. Reflect on the poem Stolen Land by Ambelin Kwaymullina and the documentary After the Apology. What kind of policies, ... 6 0 Default (Subjects only) Week 4 OUA Forum Tutorial (ABSX1000) Patrick Wolf (2006) argues that settler colonialism is a structure designed to eliminate Indigenous people and ways of life, and replace them with settlers and their systems. Reflect on the poem Stolen Land by Ambelin Kwaymullina and the documentary After the Apology. What kind of policies, ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) Week 5 - Self-Determination ABSX1000 OUA Tutorial Forum Each week you will have a different tutorial activity Read and watch the assigned Preparation material for Week 5. Evaluate the Northern Territory Intervention/ Stronger Futures against UNDRIP. You can find additional readings from the U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Rights of Indigenous ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) Online Flexible Tutorial Forum Each week you will have a different tutorial activity Read and watch the assigned Preparation material for Week 5. Evaluate the Northern Territory Intervention/ Stronger Futures against UNDRIP. You can find additional readings from the U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Rights of Indigenous ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) Week 6 - Sovereignty ABST1000 Online Flexible Week 6 Forum Read the following two articles: Structural Reform – dissent is not a mandate for disrespect - Lynda-June Coe The Heart of Seeding First Nations Sovereignty - Teela Reid Based on your reading, answer the following: What do these two articles say about Sovereignty? How are the concepts of sovereignty ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) ABSX1000 OUA Week 6 Forum Read the following two articles: Structural Reform – dissent is not a mandate for disrespect - Lynda-June Coe The Heart of Seeding First Nations Sovereignty - Teela Reid Based on your reading, answer the following: What do these two articles say about Sovereignty? How are the concepts of sovereignty ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) Week 7 - Country ABST1000 Online Flexible Week 7 Tutorial Forum After engaging with this weeks content, reading and documentary, detail and answer the following: 1. Detail the cultural and social uses and meaning of the Southern Cross for Aboriginal people in the documentary. 2. Detail the cultural and social uses and meaning of the Southern Cross for ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) ABSX1000 OUA Week 7 Tutorial Forum After engaging with this weeks content, reading and documentary, detail and answer the following: 1. Detail the cultural and social uses and meaning of the Southern Cross for Aboriginal people in the documentary. 2. Detail the cultural and social uses and meaning of the Southern Cross for ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) Week 8 - Race / Racism ABST1000 Online Flexible Week 8 tutorial forum Each week you will have a different tutorial activity. This week: Watch Admission Impossible (1992). This documentary outlines how race and race science were utilised by the Australian government to justify and enforce the White Australia Policy (1901-1975). Can you find some more recent ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) ABSX1000 OUA Week 8 tutorial forum Each week you will have a different tutorial activity. This week: Watch Admission Impossible (1992). This documentary outlines how race and race science were utilised by the Australian government to justify and enforce the White Australia Policy (1901-1975). Can you find some more recent ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) Week 9 - Deficit Discourse ABST1000 Week 9 Online Flexible tutorial This week: Find two news articles or videos covering the same event. Choose one article from an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander platform or journalist (E.g. IndigenousX, NITV, Indigenous journalism for The Guardian), and one from a non-Indigenous platform or journalist (Sydney Morning ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) ABSX1000 Week 9 OUA Tutorial This week: Find two news articles or videos covering the same event. Choose one article from an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander platform or journalist (E.g. IndigenousX, NITV, Indigenous journalism for The Guardian), and one from a non-Indigenous platform or journalist (Sydney Morning ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) Week 10 - Reconciliation is Dead ABST1000 Week 10 Online Flexible tutorial Read Distinguished Professor Maggie Walter's work on the politics of data. According to Professor Walter, what is the deficit data/problematic people (DD/PP) correlation? How does she suggest disrupting limiting representations of Indigeneity in data? - ensure you utilise APA referencing in your ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) ABSX1000 OUA Week 10 Tutorial Read Distinguished Professor Maggie Walter's work on the politics of data. According to Professor Walter, what is the deficit data/problematic people (DD/PP) correlation? How does she suggest disrupting limiting representations of Indigeneity in data? - ensure you utilise APA referencing in your ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) Week 11 - Resistance & Activism ABST1000 Online Flexible tutorial Week 11 Please choose and research ONE prominent Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander activist. Please remember to start your post with a warning if that person has now passed and you are using their name and/or image. Please share their story in the forum. You may include pictures or links. Some ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) ABSX1000 OUA Tutorial Week 11 Please choose and research ONE prominent Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander activist. Please remember to start your post with a warning if that person has now passed and you are using their name and/or image. Please share their story in the forum. You may include pictures or links. Some ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) Week 12 - Futures ABST1000 Online Flexible forum week 12 Reflect on your worldview at the start of this unit and answer the following questions: What has changed? What might the future look like if leadership and lands were restored to Indigenous peoples? Ensure you use appropriate terminology and include references in APA. As this is our final week - I ... 1 0 Default (Subjects only) ABSX1000 OUA forum week 12 Reflect on your worldview at the start of this unit and answer the following questions: What has changed? What might the future look like if leadership and lands were restored to Indigenous peoples? Ensure you use appropriate terminology and include references in APA. As this is our final week - I ... 1 0