The recently announced Task Force is required to "submit to the Minister of Canadian Heritage on September 15, 2004 , a report in fulfillment of its mandate."
From the Canadian Heritage - Aboriginal Affairs web site ...
In support of Canada's commitment to preserve, revitalize and promote Aboriginal languages and cultures, the Government of Canada announced in December 2002 that it will contribute $172.5 M over 11 years. The three-phased action plan includes a two-year extension of the current Aboriginal Languages Initiative, establishment of a Task Force on Aboriginal Languages and Cultures, and creation and on-going operations of a new Aboriginal Languages and Cultures Centre (ALCC). The Centre will be a shared-governance entity operating as a not-for-profit corporation, composed predominantly of Aboriginal individuals. The Task Force on Aboriginal Languages and Cultures has recently been named. It will examine and make recommendations on the operations, programming and objectives of the ALCC to the Minister of Canadian Heritage in 2004. The ALCC is expected to be operational by 2005.
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Ga Wiianiniiganiitamagogak Children's Centre has a new web site providing community members with regular updates and information about our program and services.
Check it out at http://gwchildrencentre.ca
Watch for future developments!!
The Keewaytinook Okimakanak (KO) Telehealth initiative and the KO Research Institute are working a number of different unversities to conduct research and produce an evaluation of the KO Telehealth project. Working with faculty and graduate students from Laurentian, Lakehead and Guelph universities, Kevin Houghton (KO Telehealth Project Manager) and Brian Walmark (KO Research Institute Coordinator) will be involved in a number of initiatives to support the development and sustainability of telehealth services in partner First Nations across the region. The research team will be involved in participatory research (also called action research) in which the communities and primary stakeholders will have an active role in defining the evaluation objectives, setting priorities and in designing the tools.
The evaluation component of the KO Telehealth project is designed to fulfill three primary requirements:
The partners in this important project component include:
The Education Director of Samson Beardy Memorial School is pleased to announce the Samson Beardy Memorial School Graduation Ceremonies happening today in Muskrat Dam, Ontario, June 17, 2004 @ 1:30 PM.
The Community members, members of the Chief and Council, Muskrat Dam Education Board members, School Staff and Students are pleased and very happy to annouce that 6 young people will be graduating from Samson Beardy Elementry School this afternoon. June 17, 2004.
Also graduating from the Kindergarten Program will be 7 students.
Graduation Ceremonies are scheduled to commence at 1:30 PM.
Following this will be the Annual Student Achievement Awards. The Teaching staff will be recognizing the students for their acheivements by presenting them with plaques.
Immediately following the awards presentations will be the Community Feast, which will be at 4:00 PM.
Later on the evening, the staff, students and community members will be joining the graduates with the Graduation Dance at the School Gym.
Grade 7 & 8 School Trip
On Friday morning, June 18, 2004 at 6:00 AM, the Grade 8 Graduating Class along with the Grade 7 Class will be leaving on the School Class trip to Toronto, Ontario. The students will be travelling back to the community on June 26, 2004
Pentecostal Faith Temple Campmeeting 2004
Cat Lake, Ontario
July 28 - August 1, 2004
7:00 PM NIGHTLY
11 Am Sunday Morning
Guest Speaker
Evangelist Ralph Thomas From Easterville Manitoba
Musicians Also From Easterville
Services will be aired through WRN Starting July 30 - August 1, 2004
Other visitors coming from Surrounding communities
Travel at your own expense
meals and accomadations will be provided
for more info please call
Pastor Alec Bighead @ (807) 347-2118
Fernando Oliveira is the program developer and instructor for the First Nations SchoolNet on-line Grade 8 Supplementary courses. Over this past year, he explored different on-line delivery methods to support Grade 8 students and teachers in their classrooms.
The teacher evaluation of the English Literacy course is now available on-line. Here are some of the comments from the teachers that took the time to complete the course survey ...
The Grade 8 course took on a new look for the English Literacy material. Fernando worked with a team of developers to adapt the open source Moodle e-learning platform to accommodate the different classrooms, students and learning materials.
The fall semester Fernando delivered a variety of Grade 8 Science supplementary units in 11 different First Nation classrooms. Click here to read his report and the comments from the teachers about this experience.
The winter semester saw 17 First Nation schools sign up for the Math supplementary on-line course that Fernando offered. Click here to read his report and the comments from the teachers about the Math on-line course.
This initiative was first piloted in the spring of 2003 working with the Keewaytinook Okimakanak community partners who are part of the Keewaytinook Internet High School. Fernando, who use to teach with KiHS in the remote First Nations of Poplar Hill and Fort Severn, agreed to develop and facilitate the delivery of the first on-line science units for Grade 8 students in 8 communities. This pilot proved very successful (click here to read the results of this pilot project). This pilot was funded by the KO Smart Communities project.
The Gospel Jamboree will be held on the weekend of June 26 - 29, 2004
If you require more information, Please contact
Laura Morris - (807) 537-2263
WHEN:THURSDAY JULY 1,2004
BIGGEST WALLEYE
PLUS MANY MORE PRIZES
FOR MORE INFO CALL
Keewaytinook Okimakanak is Industry Canada's First Nations SchoolNet regional management organization (RMO) for Ontario. The http://firstnationschools.ca web portal created for this program is collecting and posting a variety of online resources on this site under the title "On-line Educational Resources".
Everyone is invited to submit their upcoming education conferences and events, as well as their favourite web sites and on-line resources to brian.beaton@knet.ca to be included on this site. Be sure to check out the existing First Nation web sites as well as the different First Nation schools web site that are being developed under this project.
All First Nation schools and communities are invited to use the existing domains (firstnationschools.ca and firstnation.ca) to create their own web site using the on-line resources being made available under this SchoolNet program.
The present categories listed include:
The Red Lake Indian Friendship Centre will be celebrating national Aboriginal Day on Saturday, June 19, 2004 by hosting a Trading Village in at the High School in Red Lake.
We are looking for local artists, crafts, food, etc…whoever would like to display or sell their merchandise throughout this special day. Free promotional opportunity for those interested in participating in this event.
We are also looking for entertainers - musicians, drummers to enjoy each other talents on an open mike…
The Kanata Dance Troupe will be the main feature at 4 o’clock.
Poster reads as follows:
Aboriginal Day Celebration
Saturday, June 19, 2004
Red Lake Indian Friendship Centre would like to invite your family to celebrate with us on
Saturday, June 19, 2004
At the Red Lake District High School
From 1:00 to 5:00 pm
Featuring Kanata Dance Troupe
Also featuring the Trading Village
with Local merchants, crafts, for display or for sale and our local musicians, drummers, entertainers to provide an afternoon of entertainment – open mike
Please contact Shelley, Ann, or Lori K. for further information @ 727-2847