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KIHS Classroom is finally online after 6 weeks in a BIG way. The students are excited and so is the teacher, Julia Rowe. She's nearly hitting the wall from jumping up and down with excitement. We have managed to print out hard copies of the students' assignments each week so they could keep up with their school work. They have saved all their work on disks and are sending them out to their teachers. Thanks to John @ Northern Chiefs, Al @ Windigo and Chris from Ottawa (and everyone else) for helping Slate Falls to make this connection possible. Thanks a bunch

On Friday October 19th Slate Falls connected to the K-Net Satellite Network with their newly installed community satellite Dish. The project, a partnership between the community of Slate Falls, Windigo Tribal Council, K-Net, Telesat Canada, Communications Research Council and Fednor brings two-way data, video and voice access to Slate Falls First Nation. The connectivity consists of a permanent data connection and an on demand video conferencing connection. With the data is the deployment of four IP telephones to augment the one Bell phone. The IP telephones will allow for local calling in Sioux Lookout and Dryden and for calls to the community. See the pictures Among the first locations in Slate Falls to benefit are the School, the KIHS high school program, NAPS, the Band Office and Wahsa. For more information on this please contact Al Morrison at Windigo Tribal Council .