SCHOOL ADDS NYAMAL LANGUAGE MUSIC TO VIRTUAL WORLD

One of the Virtual Worlds created by students and staff at Marble Bar school.

Marble Bar school’s virtual reality program has been named a finalist in this year's Western Australian Incite Awards for innovative projects focussing on principles of this year’s NAIDOC Week’s theme of “Heal Country”.

“We received our first headset in Term 1 of 2020,” he said. “And since then we’ve been on an incredible journey or teaching our students about Virtual Reality using Tilt Brush by Google to add colour and interactivity to the students’ works.

“The staff and students are becoming increasingly proficient at using Virtual Reality to the point that we now have two virtual worlds. We’ve got an art gallery and a virtual teacher development centre that is the place that we go to to see the students’ work and also to enable our teachers to connect and talk about culturally responsive STEM using Virtual Reality.”

Nyamal singer-songwriter Shellie Morris has been at the school helping elders and students to write Nyamal songs to be incorporated into the school’s virtual worlds.

The Virtual Worlds will be open to the public at a special NAIDOC event on Monday, June 27.