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April 28 - May 1 2004

Entry Fee: $800.00

Prizes will depend on # of teams entered

More info will be posted later or call (807) 774-5445

The Kanatakon School in Akwesasne was the host of the March 23-24, 2004 web construction workshop. This series of web site development workshops is being coordinated by Brian Walmark, Special Projects Coordinator for the Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nations SchoolNet RMO initiative. Click here to learn more about this series of workshops.

Click here to see the pictures from the workshop.

Industry Canada's First Nations SchoolNet program provided funding under their Regional Management Organization (RMO) to host a provincial Native Language conference. Participants from across the province traveled to Thunder Bay to learn and plan strategies for creating more on-line language resources. Watch the conference web site at http://language.firstnationschools.ca for the conference report and conference details.

Click here to view the pictures from the conference.

On Tuesday, March 23 and Wednesday, March 24, the Chiefs of Keewaytinook Okimakanak met at the Valhalla Inn in Thunder Bay to discuss 2004-2005 budgets and program plans for the next fiscal year. The meetings included presentations by Carl Seibel, Telecom Officer with FedNor and Brian Lawson, Liaison Officer with the Campbell Lake mines. As well, a special luncheon to honour the work the chiefs directed under the Smart Communities Demonstration project was held in conjunction with the Native Language Conference that was happening at the same time.

Click here to view the pictures from the Chiefs' meeting.

Heavy Equipment Training in Dryden

Next Course starts April 19, 2004. Call today (807)223-4970 for more information or to request a complete registration package.

The academic directors of Te Wananga o Raukawa (TWOR) met with K-Net staff (Dan Pellerin, Network Manager and Brian Beaton, K-Net Coordinator) on Monday afternoon to discuss the history of K-Net and its work in First Nation communities. Click here to see some pictures.

Keewaytinook Okimakanak staff will continue to develop and maintain the web site created for the International Virtual Conference at ( http://smart.knet.ca/international).

All the archived live sessions are now available for viewing. Click here for the list of archived video conferences and webinar sessions.

Short videos from each of the KO Smart First Nations, profiling different applications and stories from the communities are also available on-line. Here is this video collection from the web site ....

• Deer Lake First Nation (3:10 minutes)
  Community Video High and Low
  
• Fort Severn First Nation (4:15 minutes)
  Community Video High and Low
  
• Keewaywin First Nation (2:45 minutes)
  Community Video High and Low
  
• North Spirit Lake First Nation (2:30 minutes)
  Community Video High and Low
  
• Poplar Hill First Nation (3:30 minutes)
  Community Video High and Low

On March 18 and 19, KO First Nations SchoolNet were at the headquarters of the Union of Ontario Indians located on Nipissing First Nation territory for another web site construction workshop. First Nations SchoolNet is a program of Industry Canada that is administered in Ontario by Keewaytinook Okimakanak, the Northern Chiefs Tribal Council.

Workshop participants learn how to use Post Nuke, a free (open source) content management system that is very user-friendly. As well, workshop participants learn how to create free email addresses and web pages for their communities along with developing the skills required to maintain their web sites by adding news stories, photos and other material.

Click here to check out the news stories on the Ontario First Nations SchoolNet web site.

Click here to check out the pictures from this workshop.

If you are attending the Embrace Life Forum March 24-26 in Thunder Bay please send registration forms ASAP to NAN.  

FAX 807 623-7730

Please stop sending registration forms via e-mail as I am receiving too many viruses.

Any questions or need a registration form faxed or e-mailed to you call Donna at 1 807 623-8228 or Toll Free at 1 800 465-9952.

Participants in the final webcasted video conference session of the Kuhkenah International On-line Conference were treated to a collection of forward looking partners sharing their hopes and dreams for the future of the network and the applications began under the Smart Communities Demonstration project. Click here to view the archived video that include guests from New Zealand.

Over the past two days, over 250 guests logged into the different on-line presentations that were hosted by people from around the world.