Media.Knet.Ca

The coordinating team for the Kuhkenah Language iishikiishiwin Workshop met this past week to discuss the workshop content and facilitation. From the invitation poster ...

This conference is for:

• Ontario Aboriginal Language Teachers / Instructors who know about and use the Internet and communication technologies,
• Ontario Aboriginal Language Teachers who are interested in using these technologies for the purposes of teaching the language and working with other language instructors to develop and support on-line resources.

Objectives:

• Using the Internet and computer-mediated tools for the instruction of Aboriginal languages
• Producing and sharing web and multi-media products for language instructors.

A web site has been set up for the workshop facilitators to post all the latest information about this gathering. Watch this web site at http://language.firstnationschools.ca/ for all the latest updates of this workshop that is scheduled for March 23 and 24 in Thunder Bay.

Click here for pictures of the planning team meeting.

Brian Walmark, First Nations SchoolNet Special Projects Coordinator, worked with Seven Generations Education Institute to host another web development workshop for First Nation schools and groups from the Fort Frances region. Jesse Fiddler, K-Net's Multi-media Manager, travelled from Sioux Lookout to lead this workshop. A number of technical and weather related challenges forced everyone to adopt a very flexible agenda. A full network, lack of available IP numbers for the wireless lab, along with frozen vehicles and full hotels due to a hockey tournament created a great learning opportunity for everyone to experience a variety of troubleshooting strategies to support the creation of new web sites.

Personal web pages at MyKnet.org continue to be the most popular on-line space for the Nishnawbe Aski to browse. In January there were over 30 million hits on this K-Net server (over 9 million more hits from the previous month)! The average daily hits on this server rose to nearly 1 million hits each day!

The new games web site along with new First Nation school and community web sites also created an increase in the usage of these on-line services.

All together there were over 40 MILLION hits occurring on the seven most popular monitored K-Net servers throughout January. Specifically, on these seven servers with traffic graphs, there were a total of 40,396,885 hits made to these on-line services provided by Keewaytinook Okimakanak. The seven servers generating this amount of traffic include myknet.org, knet.ca, webmail.knet.ca, hosting.knet.ca, highschool.knet.ca, games.knet.ca and photos.knet.ca (just click on the server to see the traffic monitoring chart for each server). There were 654,682 visits made during this period to these seven servers, indicating that people are exploring these sites more and more.

Most of the K-Net servers that are being monitored for hits, visits and usage statistics using the webalizer program again showed an increase during the month. But http://myknet.org rose by nearly 10 million hits to demonstrate the rapid take up of these communication tools among users across the north.

Please note:

• other on-line K-Net services, such as K-Net chat and the video streamer are not included in these numbers;
• server traffic monitoring information is located at http://tech.knet.ca/~tech/monitoring/webalizer