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We are very excited to announce the launch of Basa basi - a new online learning resource for Indonesian. The resource contains six videos and accompanying activities, with a range of levels suitable for students in Years 5-12. 

Each video has can be viewed with subtitles on or off and has an accompanying set of downloadable student activity sheets.

In the 'For teachers' section, you will find notes on language use, suggestions for classroom activities, student activity sheets and sample responses as well as links to useful websites.

We hope that you and your students enjoy exploring the resource and perhaps even create some more activities of your own to share with your colleagues.

Click here or on the image below for a direct link to Basa basi.

Year 10 students from Mullumbimby High School entertained 56 year 6 students from Brunswick Public School today by writing, creating and performing traditional Indonesian shadow puppet plays called Wayang.

The puppet shows were produced by the Year 10 elective Indonesian class and told stories of finding Nemo, counting classroom objects and shopping for pets. The Indonesian language used in the plays was explained and reinforced through interactive games with prizes.

Yudi, the Balinese assistant teacher at Mullumbimby High School inspired and directed the students with their wayang creations. Elke Buhrich, teacher of Indonesian at Mullumbimby High School explained “This has been a enjoyable learning experience for all involved and a great opportunity to develop relationships with our sister school."

MULLUMBIMBY HIGH SCHOOL PRESS RELEASE
Thursday 26th March

Do your students love reality TV shows? Check out this curriculum resource from the AEF where students learn about a variety of Indonesian cuisines through popular Indonesian TV cooking shows

Congratulations to the students from Illawarra Sports High school and their teacher, Jennifer Jurman-Hilton who have partnered with a sister school in Bali to create ways to solve local environmental issues through the Bottle for Botol program. For more information about this program please visit the Bottle for Botol website at www.bottleforbotol.org

Being that time of the year… coming up with motivating tasks for our kids I made this activity and thought I would share if anyone else would like to use it.

It is a bit of a QR code quest… the kids get the question sheet then have to look for the QR codes put up around the school, or classroom… wherever really. They scan the codes and watch the videos or read the websites the codes take them to to find the answers.

Anyway everyone is welcome to it…. all based on Indonesia of course. Videos have been watched to make sure they are PG.

Thank you.

Coreena Allen
Year 12 Adviser / SRC Adviser
Merewether High School

Have you joined the ILTA NSW Facebook group? This is a great space to share all kinds of Indonesia-related news articles, YouTube videos, website links etc and to find out what is happening in the world of Indonesian for teachers in NSW. 

The Ayo Membaca website is a set of online, interactive reading lessons for Indonesian.