Volunteer

Volunteering

The Education Mob is powered by volunteer effort and goodwill. We are a mixture of self-funded retirees and current educators, Aboriginal and other Australians. In common we have a desire to contribute to a better Territory by sharing the knowledge, skills and experiences of ourselves and colleagues, past, present and future, opportunity to give back and having a bit of fun and satisfaction while doing it!

What our Volunteers do

Assist with our Digitisation and Preservation program

Most of the material that is donated to us or we source is in physical or hardcopy form. Our Volunteers digitise and process donated materials.

Like organising things? You can help us organise and correctly house photos, slides and other material.

Do you enjoy working with technology? Learn how to digitise to collecting agency preservation standards

Assist with Digital Keeping Place

Unless the material in the Digital Keeping Place has good metadata it can't be found. Keeping up with the captioning and tagging in the Digital Keeping Place is a challenge and we are always looking for help with this. You may know a particular community or subject well. You may have a particular specialty or interest or knowledge you are willing to share. It may be that you can help with your own, an individual or a community collection. You can do this from home wherever you are and as much or as little as you like.

If you have contacts in a community, you can help with conversations that enhance the metadata in the Digital Keeping Place, identifying people, places and activities.

You may be in contact with former NT educators who may be willing to allow us to borrow their personal collection. You might be able to add contribute knowledge about projects. You might be happy to help with the work involved in a grant, have an idea for a grant, want to collaborate on a grant.

Record a memoir

Your time living and working with Aboriginal students and educators is a rich source of history. It tells of the people, events and activities of the time.

We have a range of focus questions depending on your role which we can send to you. Some people prefer to write, some people to talk and some people to make an audiovisual record.

Create new material

Using the material in the Digital Keeping Place and beyond, we curate and create new material to tell the stories to a new generation. We create albums, posters, postcards, histories, books.

You may have a particular skill set e.g. proofreading, an idea for a story, something you have written as part of your study that might be useful.