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The March 2004 Keewaytinook Internet High School newsletter is now available online.

Check here to read the stories.

The Men's Hockey Tournament has been postponed to the later date of 
March 17, 18, 19 & 20, 2004.

Nibinamik Sports & Recreation

Men's Hockey Tournament 2004

March 17, 18, 19 & 20, 2004

Championship           $7,000.00

Finalist                    $5,000.00

Consolation              $3,000.00

Runner Up                $1,500.00

Entry Fee               $1,500.00

First 7 outside teams to confirm will be accepted

Deadline for entry if March 15, 2004

Accommodations will be provided for all teams

1 Import will be allowed for all teams

Rules & Regulations available upon Arrival

Teams are expected to arrive by March 17, 2004

Confirmed teams are:

• Nibinamik Flyers
• Summer Beaver Wolves

For more Information please contact the Recreation @ 807 593-2131

Bring your own sleeping bags, mattresses etc.

COMPUTER TRAINING COURSES

            Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Cost: $100.00 / Course (includes instruction, certificate & manual)

If there is a course you would like to see offered, let us know.  We will arrange courses for groups, employees, or individuals (minimum of  6 / course), to meet your training needs.  We can also arrange for training in your home community.

Contact:  Adult Education & Training at

             (807) 737-7461 (phone)  or  (807)737-7819 (fax)

Personal web pages at MyKnet.org continue to be the most popular on-line space for the Nishnawbe Aski to browse. In February there were over 44 million hits on this K-Net server (over 14 million more hits from the previous month)! The average daily hits on this server rose to over 1.5 million hits each day!

All together there were over 52 MILLION hits occurring on the five most popular monitored K-Net servers throughout February. Specifically, on these five servers with traffic graphs, there were a total of 52,734,926 hits made to these on-line services provided by Keewaytinook Okimakanak. The five 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). There were also a total of 719,063 visits made during this period to these five 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 14 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

A collection of video clips is available for viewing on-line at http://smart.knet.ca/fednor_video_list.html

These clips were captured during the first week in December. George Ferreira, a graduate student at the University of Guelph, came to Sioux Lookout and then drove to Thunder Bay to get this footage. The plans include producing a short documentary about the work that teams from FedNor and Keewaytinook Okimakanak to help bring broadband connectivity and applications into this region.

Northern Development and Mines Minister Bartolucci visited the Keewaytinook Okimakanak office in Balmertown to announce nearly 1.1 million dollar investment to support the purchase of telemedicine equipment required to expand the KO Telehealth initiative into all the First Nation Health Centres across the Sioux Lookout Health Zone. The funding is coming from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund.

Click here to see the pictures and the story about this announcement.

Click here to read the ministry's press release.

Click here to read the newspaper coverage in the Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal.

The K-Net office in Sioux Lookout has a new telephone system that is operating entirely over the Kuhkenah Network. When anyone now calls the K-Net office using either our toll-free number (877-737-5638) or our local number (807-737-1135) they will be greeted by the new system and invited to either enter the person's extension or press 4 to go to the office directory. In the office directory, a caller only needs to enter the first three letters of a person's last name and then wait for a menu to get to the KO staff member's IP phone.

The telephone directory is available on-line at http://knet.ca/phone_numbers.html

One component of the KO First Nations SchoolNet project is to work with Dr. Ricardo Ramirez and his graduate students to identify strategies using video conferencing to establish areas of research and development in First Nation schools. Video conference meetings this week began this process.

Click here to check out the story on the First Nations SchoolNet web.