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Tara Toulouse, Jamie Ray, and KORI’s Brian Walmark will be flying to Vancouver to deliver a presentation on the Youth Employment initiative that is being funded by Industry Canada's First Nations SchoolNet program through the KO Regional Management Organization. This CRACIN workshop on "civic participation" is part of the larger Summit 2005 gathering that is happening at the same time.  Click here to check out the workshop pictures that Jamie is posting from Vancouver.

Tara, a youth worker in her home community of Sagamok FN, is sharing her thoughts about what it is like to be involved in the Youth Initiative Training (YIT) program as well as a youth worker in her community. Jamie Ray, a trainer with YIT and the on-line CISCO ITE1 program, will be discussing what it is like to be involved in a peer-to-peer, on-line learning environment such as YIT.  Brian Walmark will also be attending and will provide the CRACIN participants with an overview of how YIT fits into the larger context of Industry Canada’s First Nations SchoolNet in Ontario and K-Net Services specifically. Adam Fiser, a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto and a member of CRACIN, will be exploring topics of academic research associated with YIT.

The third CRACIN workshop is being held Friday Feb. 25 and Saturday Feb. 26 in Vancouver, BC.

For those of you who cannot join us in Vancouver, the CRACIN workshop is being webcast using the K-Net Breeze webcasting platform. Breeze supports remote participants to watch presentations in real time and features an interactive text chat function.

The agenda for the CRACIN workshop is available the CRACIN website at http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/cracin/events/index.htm#w3

Please note that the times noted on the agenda are Pacific, so adjust your watches accordingly. The first session on Friday begins at 10:30 am Vancouver time. The sessions are also being recorded and make them available as archives for those unable to join us in real time.

Details on using Breeze are below.
Macromedia Breeze:

The CRACIN Breeze Meeting room is accessible at http://breeze.knet.ca/r42234647/
for those who already have a Breeze username (your e-mail address) and password.

If you have not used Breeze before, then you need a username and password. Please self-register by going to this url:

http://breeze.knet.ca/r42234647/?access-key=eheu8ndt8mphwifn

System Requirements:
Windows (98se, ME, XP, NT 4.0, 2000)
Internet Explorer 4.0, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 
Netscape Navigator 4, 6.2, 7.1 
AOL 8 
Compuserve 7 (2000 & XP only) 
Mozilla 1.2 
Opera 7 

Macintosh (9.2, OS X 10.1 or later)
Safari 1.1, 1.2 
Netscape 6.2, 7.1 
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 
CompuServe 7 (OS 10.1 or later) 
Mozilla 1.2

Additional Requirements 
Macromedia Flash Player 6.0.65 or higher for embedded video and Breeze Live

To hear the meeting, you'll need either headphones or speakers on your computer.

More FAQs on Breeze:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_18815