New Colombo Plan Presentation as End of SUT-UMN Collaboration

Seven students from Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) ended the new Colombo Plan 2016 series of activities at UMN by presenting a website for curug sangereng village of their creations and sharing various interesting activities that he carried out over the past two weeks, Thursday (28/7).

The New Colombo Plan is a mobility program that provides funding for Australian universities to support students to participate in short-term studies at locations across the Indo-Pacific region.

Swinburne University of Technology is one of the universities that organizes the program and in collaboration with UMN provides a special opportunity for students of both universities to achieve a greater understanding as well as unique challenges of various technological problems faced by the community.

After learning about Indonesian culture in the first week, SUT students consisting of Aleks, John, Cliff, Dexter, Mick, Ian and Adam, continued their activities by creating a website for the school in Curug-Sangereng village. Starting from the pre-planning process, namely preparing a sample website by utilizing applications such as Facebook, Google maps and twitter; slack as advice for communicating; as well as setting up a portable web using raspberry pi and internet router. In addition, wireframes are made for all types of screens.

When the structure of the site has been completed, to fill the content, they visit Cihuni Elementary School directly to discuss the standards of curriculum needs, arrange content that is fun for students and create different guidelines for students and teachers. After that, they divide the tasks to work on the website to speed up completion.

At the closing ceremony, they also told about their experience teaching cihuni elementary school children at UMN, Wednesday (27/7). They teach how to use Ms. Paint, access google and Wikipedia, and teach programming using simple games from www.code.org website. Teachers are taught Microsoft Powerpoint and Excel. (*)

By Debora Thea