Eli the Dragonfly

Overview | Puppet | Jigsaw | Find it | Lunchtime | Match it | Paint it | Crack the Whip
Concentration | What’s the Trick? | Going to the River | Dress-Ups | Video clips

“ ...the development of these sort of educational tools goes a long way... towards making school more relevant and to providing... young aboriginal people... with skills and tools they need to succeed ... . Eli the Dragonfly combines pure educational value, trans cultural element - home language to Standard Australian English - and has a fun element so that children enjoy what they are doing and therefore want to do more of it.”  
Alan Carpenter
Minister for Education, Sport and Recreation, and Indigenous Affairs
Western Australia

Developed for the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, and accompanied by a Teachers Resource book and hand puppet (designed and produced by Multilocus Interactive), Eli the Dragonfly is the first Australian developed English as a Second Language CD-ROM for lower primary school students.

Based on the Fostering English Language In Kimberley Schools (FELIKS) approach, Eli increases student awareness of English and focuses specifically on features that cause difficulty for Aboriginal students.

Eli the Dragonfly includes themes, characters, icons and colours typical of the Kimberley Region that are not only relevant to the Kimberley’s Aboriginal children for whom the CD-ROM was designed, but are attractive to all young students for whom Standard Australian English is not their first language.

The accompanying Teachers Resource Book provides ideas and ways in which teachers can extend the potential for learning from this resource; and the hand puppet of Eli the Dragonfly provides a stimulus for more creative experiences. Ideally this CD-ROM should be used as part of an integrated early childhood curriculum.

The Games – ‘at a glance’
• Concentration
• Jigsaw
• Find it
• Lunchtime
• Match it
• Paint it
• Crack the Whip
• What’s the Trick?
• Going to the River
• Dress-Ups
• Video clips