Electronic Mail Links with Malang, East Java


Welcome to the
Hobart - Malang Electronic Mail Project
Cyberfair Narrative for 1997 The girls of Year Four, 1996. successfully established the first electronic mail link with Indonesian students in Malang, East Java. Their work follows that of the Year Four students in 1995 who initiated the project as part of their studies of Indonesia. Thursday 15/5/97 - Congratulations to the students in Years Four, Five and Six at Fahan school, Hobart, Blimbing III and the SDNP Elementary in Malang Java. who today won FIRST prize in the 1997 International Cyberfair competition for the development of the first school based electronic mail link between Australia and Indonesia. During 1997 the Indonesian electronic mail project will continue with students at the Fahan Junior School, and their peers in Malang, Java. The students in Year Four at Fahan school have been working on a number of projects with relation to Indonesia. In particular Year Four students at an elementary school in Malang. The formation of this project began with work conducted by Dr Mary Fearnley Sander of the University of Tasmanias Faculty of Education. Dr Fearnley Sander had been working with students in her Bachelor of Education course where she has promoted the use of electronic mail with students at IKIP Malang, a teachers training institute in Eastern Java. It has been my intention since the beginning of 1995 to develop a similar electronic mail link with young students from Year Four at Fahan as part of an interactive project on Indonesia - its culture and its people. An example of the work we have been doing in class is demonstrated on this page. The girls in Year Four read a traditional fold tale The Blooming Flower of Flores The story was presented in two formats for a wider audience. As an interactive multimedia project using an Acorn computer Genesis - multimedia software. As a shadow puppet play which was later presented to the school community during the weekly school assembly. Over the coming months a diary of events will be updated weekly on this page outlining the progess of the project. Please follow the progress of the project by visiting the sites listed below. First contact and initial report Our first contact with a school in Java was with the Sekolah Dasar Percobaan IKIP Negeri Malang - Indonesia. With the assistance of teachers in both Malang and Hobart we have been able to establish an exciting first link between primary school children in our two countries. The Schools Following the initial success of the link with ibu Wahyuni and her students at the Sekolah Dasar Percobaan IKIP Negeri on Malang,contact was made in August of 1996 asking for the girls in Year Four at Fahan school to establish an electronic mail link with the children at Blimbing III Primary School in Malang. Having now successfully established to viable and productive links with schools in Malang, Indonesia, we are now confident that similar projects between children in Australia and Indonesia will now become a popular and productive means of sharing information and learning about each others cultures. Continuing on from the success of 1996 In early April of 1997 the girls in Year Four at Fahan school were able to once again make contact with the girls and boys at Blimbing III Elementary school in Malang. The work they are producing together will be published for you to follow the progress of this exciting contact. Electronic mail between the teachers Electronic mail between the children Letters about the many religions of Indonesia A programme of work for a Middle Primary Class Traditional costumes as worn by Fahan girls Artwork produced by the children at SD Negeri PercobaanThe girls and boys from SD Negeri Percobaan sent to the girls at Fahan School paintings and drawings they completed in class. Photographs of the Malang children Indonesian Folk Tales Why I feel AustralianThe views of the children in Year Four at Fahan School on what they think defines them as an Australian Why I am proud to be IndonesianThe views of the children in Malang on what makes them proud to be Indonesian. Student Database developed by the childrenThe girls in Year Four have collated some statistical data on both our classes and included diagrams to explain the data. Read about the native animals of Australia The children write about a typical day in their own lives as students in a Primary school A look at some of our daily activities at Blimbing III The children in Year Four visit an Indonesian restaurant on Tuesday August 6th 1996 Our views of Hobart A look at our Australian homes Each girl in Year Four has written about their home in Tasmania and included a photograph oftheir favourite place at home. The Legend of the city of Surabaya This exciting tale of octopus, crocodies and fish tells how the city of Surabaya was named. An excellent retelling from Ni Luh Putu Novi For further information on the electronic mail project contact... Peter Lelong Ibu Wahyuni Dr. Mary Fearnley Sander Yos Ginting Dr. Eko Ganis Sukoharsono