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Behind the scenes!

Behind the scenes on our work at the Heinrich Barth Institute, in Cologne.
Filming the last details on the Namibian case studies, on the Brandberg, with Tilman Lenssen-Erz.

Afterwards we will be heading to Hamburg to meet our colleagues from Mozambique and finishing their case studies.

Moving forward!

Author: Sofia Fonseca

Final dinner in Namibia

Our MOOC’s team at Windhoek: Juliette and Heiko from M.oment M.al TV & Film Production, Professor Tilman Lenssen-Erz, from University of Cologne and Sofia Fonseca, the project coordinator, from Teiduma Consultancy on Heritage and Culture.

This was the last dinner before returning home with the feeling of a good job done and having moving forward in our project!

Namibia is indeed an amazing Case Study!

Author: Sofia Fonseca

Video shoot in Namibia

In Namibia recording more videos for our MOOC on A frican archaeology and African heritage.
Namibian rock art will be one of the case studies with a special focus on heritage management by the community to the community.

Author: Sofia Fonseca

Editing our movies in Bonn

In August, we meet in Bonn, at the German Archaeological Institute, to work on editing our videos for the MOOC.

We went through all the material we already have and start editing. Not an easy task but Heiko and Juliette, from MomentMal TV, know what to do!

Our movies must have between 5 and 10 minutes so we can upload them to our online platform.

Another important aspect is the sound. You can have the most amazing footage, but if the sound is not good, the students will not be able to understand and engage with the lessons!

Moving forward!

Author: Sofia Fonseca

Mozambique: filming our first case study!

In June 2019 we head to Mozambique! Our team included MomentMal TV crew, Jörg Linstädter, archaeologist and scientific director of the Commission for Archaeology of Non-European Cultures of the DAI, and Décio Muianga, lecturer and research assistant at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, at Eduardo Mondlane University, in Maputo.

Jörg and Décio will explain one of our case studies regarding Mozambique, in this case, the project they are developing in the Changalane region.

Sabrina Stempfle, from Hamburg University and Sheila Machava from Eduardo Mondlane University, also joined us on the field. They will be responsible for our MOOC lesson on archaeometry, using the pottery collected in Changalane and afterwards using geochemical analysis methods in the laboratory in Hamburg.

Sabrina and Sheila’s work is one of the many collaborations the DAI is currently developing in Mozambique, Iswatini and South Africa, bringing students from the different countries to work and learn together.

Author: Sofia Fonseca

Moving forward in Faro, Portugal

In January 2019 we had our consortium meeting in Faro, at the University of Algarve, in Portugal. Nuno Bicho, the Director of ICArEHB and one of the consortium founders, welcome us on the beautiful Algarve for three days of hard work.

We had interesting discussions moving forward on our project. By the end of the meeting we closed the MOOC structure, defined the different modules, the lessons inside each module, the case studies to be presented and the online platform that better suits our objective and purpose.

Some filming was made by MomentMal TV, our filmmaking team, on ICArEHB and the projects being developed in Mozambique.

We also schedule our work for the year ahead and the amount of work we will have done until December 2019.

Many challenges and exciting months ahead of us!

Author: Sofia Fonseca

ONLAAH web page!

We are very proud to present you to our new web page!

For now, you have a landing page where you can subscribe to our mailing list to receive our future newsletter with all the information regarding the courses, the projects we present as case studies, our partners and much more!

Join our newsletter and start this journey with us!

WWW.ONLAAH.COM

Author: Sofia Fonseca

Our Journey through 2018: from Aswan to Barcelona, passing by Berlin and Toronto

Definitely, 2018 was a big year for the ONLAAH project! In March we had the general meeting of TANA- TransArea Network Africa, in Egypt, on the beautiful city of Aswan.

We presented our projects to our DAI colleagues and start filming some videos for the MOOC, with the team from MomentMal TV. We filmed a general introduction to the course and some interviews with DAI researchers working in Africa.

These first movies are very important to us because they will establish the ‘formula’ for the MOOC visual and the way we approach learning.

A couple of months later, in May, we meet again in Berlin to finish the movies with Michèle Dinies, on Pollen analysis, and Philipp von Rummel, on the TANA network.

Later in September, we were in Barcelona to present ONLAAH, at the “24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologist: Reflecting Futures”. We organized the session 481, “Traditional and (Alternative) New Media: Different Ways to Communicate upon Archaeology”, where apart of ONLAAH many other projects related with new ways of communicated and related with the public were explored.

In our presentation titled: Why Archaeology Matters? Digging up Archaeology’s Role in Modern Societies”, we summarized our project trajectory and results till now, our main goals to the future and the next steps to take us there.

Finally, in November, we travel to Neuchâtel to meet with ONLAAH founder, Matthieu Honegger and present our project on the DARIAH- Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, workshop at Neuchâtel University.

The workshop was very interesting with many research projects from Switzerland and around the world, using digital resources apply to Humanities.

Author: Sofia Fonseca

The Consortium is born!

This was when it all began! Sofia Fonseca, from Teiduma, together with the Jörg Linstädter, from DAI and Bruno Bicho, from the ICArEHB– University of the Algarve (UAlg), organized a meeting in Faro on the 19th of December of 2016. There were also Matthieu Honegger, from the University of Neuchatel and Jonathan Haws, from the University of Louisville. The idea was to bring together different colleagues and institutions working in Africa to start creating the MOOC structure and the future of the online platform. What would we like to have in our first course? Which African colleagues we would contact to join the project? Which main objectives would the platform have? And finally, what were the main challenges to overcome?

It was a very important moment with the partners presenting their different projects in Africa and brainstorming together to answer the questions that always arrive at the beginning of any endeavour!

Sofia Fonseca started the presentations with an introduction to “E-Learning and the future of archaeological and heritage education in Africa”. Nuno Bicho, presented the ICArEHB project “The Massingir region in Mozambique”, followed by Jörg Linstädter and “The German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and it’s projects in Africa”.

Jonathan Haws made a presentation regarding his project on “The coastal Archaeology in Mozambique” and Matthieu Honegger, took us to Sudan to meet the “Archaeological project in Kerma (Northern Sudan): Research, valorization and protection of the cultural heritage”. Finally, João Cascalheira ended the meeting with “Learning from stone tools in Africa: the example of Mozambique”.

We had good participation from the public that raised interesting questions and some doubts about online education.


It is always interesting to see how new technologies or new ways of doing, may raise suspicions, many of them very reasonable, and how throughout the process, we will have to answer and solve some them.

Author: Sofia Fonseca

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