Launch of the First Nations Innovation Research Project
Researching and Celebrating Achievements with Information and Communication Technologies
Please see attached invitation (poster and media release) and circulate widely on your networks.
Attention grade 7 and 8 teachers:
The Ned Program provides online supplementary courses to students in First Nation elementary schools. This program enables grade 7 and 8 classrooms across Ontario to participate in an online program that is free and flexible.
Sault College Info:
The Ned Supplementary Courses Program provides free online supplementary courses to students in First Nation elementary schools. Registration is now open for the upcoming Science course, which is scheduled to begin on April 1, 2011.
If you are of Aboriginal Ancestry
(Status, Non-Status, Metis, or Inuit) and:
The Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) AHHRI & IIHCP is once again offering the Health Careers Grant Program. This is an opportunity for NAN communities, Tribal Councils and affiliated organizations to receive up to $5,000 to develop and implement Health Careers awareness/promotional activities for NAN youth.
Examples of activities that will be supported under this grant program include:
MEDIA RELEASE
(Thunder Bay) (June 16, 2010) The Oshki-Pimache-O-Win Education & Training Institute will celebrate and honour the largest graduating class of OSHKI’s history on Friday, June 18, 2010. The 2010 Graduation Ceremony will be held at the Da Vinci Centre in Thunder Bay starting at 2:00 pm.
This spring, Fernando Oliveira and Angela Batsford are teaming up to create an online course for the Ned Supplementary Online Courses Program (www.ned.knet.ca). The Learning Strategies course (GLS10) will be offered to grade 8 students in First Nation schools across Ontario starting in the fall of 2010. This “reach-ahead” program will allow grade 8 students to attain a grade 9 half-credit.
From The Chronicle Journal
KRIS KETONEN - 03/04/2010