Media.Knet.Ca

There was a total of 58,146,015 hits occurring on six of the monitored K-Net servers over the month of March. The six servers generating this amount of traffic include myknet.org, knet.ca, webmail.knet.ca, hosting.knet.ca, highschool.knet.ca, and photos.knet.ca (just click on the server to see the traffic monitoring chart for each server).

This number shows an increase from the previous month of over 6 million hits. As well, there was a total of over 800,000 visits made during this period to these six servers (an increase of over 80,000 visits from the previous month). The following table shows the actual numbers for these categories for the month of March.

Personal web pages at MyKnet.org continue to be the most popular on-line space for the Nishnawbe Aski to browse. In March there were over 48 million hits on this K-Net server (over 4 million more hits from the previous month)! The average daily hits on this server rose to over 1.55 million hits each day on this server!

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.

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

A video conference meeting of the twelve Smart Community Demonstration projects on the last day of the program, signalled the start of a new era of development for each of the initiatives began under this innovative Industry Canada program. The Kuhkenah Network of Smart First Nations project successfully completed all the proposed deliverables scaling many of them to include other First Nations and organizations across the region and the country.

The Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nations are now undertaking the challenge of planning and developing strategies to sustain all the programs and services began under this project.

Kenjgewin Teg Educational Institute at M'Chigeeng (formerly West Bay First Nation) is hosting the last of an extensive series of Web Site Development workshops coordinated by the Ontario Regional Management Organization of Industry Canada's SchoolNet program. Click here to check out the pictures of this workshop.

Began back in the spring of 2003, Keewaytinook Okimakanak staff have now hosted more than 18 different training sessions to introduce the use of the open source content management program called Post Nuke to First Nation schools and students across the province. When Brian Walmark took on the challenge of coordinating these workshops back in October 2003, he used to say that he never thought of himself as a computer trainer. Today, he lead another workshop with a large group of educators from the First Nation schools on Manitoulin Island.

More than 80 First Nation education web sites have been started under this project. There is lots more work to do on each of these web sites but with this initial introduction and with these resources now available to this many schools, there is lots of opportunities for a widespread take up of these on-line tools in the new fiscal year. Click here to check out the First Nation school web sites.

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.