KORI Community Stories and Events

Continuing with showcasing the DERAC series, I have posted 3 new videos for the second session.  I've had to fight the computer from breaking down yet again, and have been faced with waiting for the computer to render out the videos.  Which have been taking more and more time.  These videos are getting challenging to edit mainly because there'...

My apologies for the tardiness of uploading videos, but last week my computer was under the weather.  A virus found its way onto it and I've spent a few days trying to get it well again, but alas, Jordon came to the rescue yet again.  So, I've mamaged to edit 5 new videos from the first session of the DERAC series and have added them to the...

Getting close to finishing my contact list. It's mainly the KO and NAN first Nations that Brian is more concerned about, the other communities can wait as I go down the list in alphabetical order.

I've been keeping busy for the past two days with the KO Education boardroom meeting. I was being a good hostess, and providing snacks and...

Franz has been asking me to think of things that I would like to learn more about before my time is up here at the K.O. Research Institute. I've been learning a lot of things in my time here, but I'd like to learn more about how to design websites. The two day workshop gave me some pointers on how to begin, it's just the action I need now....

Gordon Kakegamic unvealed the new Oshki website at the annual Keewaywin gathering of NAN Chiefs held in Constance Lake this week.  The new website was constructed using the best practices and lessons learned by KO's own web development initiatives.  Fernado Oliveria, a former KiHS teacher and facilitator of the Native Education platorm (NED.ca...

Education Directors from across KO as well as other community leaders gathered in the KORI offices in Thunder Bay to plan the next steps for the proposed board of education. Geordi Kakepetum, Goyce Kakegamic and Ross Mamakeesic participated in the discussions as KO is assuming more responsibility of the education of its youth.  KORI summer...

I got the chance to hop on the charter to visit Keewaywin and Koocheching for the day... to bad we couldn't stay longer. After checking in on the Dryden Telecom workers and the cellular tower (when are they going to turn that thing on?), we headed off to Koocheching in a beaver float plane. We were met by Jane who lives in the community on the...

KORI's Franz Seibel supported the Community and K-Net Technical teams on a trip to the communities. NOHFC's Mark Vermet joined the charter to visit with community leaders and see the work that is being done under the NOHFC funded projects (Cellular Service in KWW and link to Koocheching). Mark travellled with Joseph, Jamie and Franz to...

Orpah McKenzie, the founding director of KO Telehealth (now Telemedicine) has agreed to conduct a presentation on the early days of telemedicine in the Sioux Lookout zone.  One of the first registered nurses from the NAN territory, McKenzie and her team guided the development of KOTH from the early community vision to the first tele-psychiatric...

Back in the day I worked with a team of web developers, we built a masterpiece website called Stories of Our Elders, that was 6 years ago, technology has grown slightly, computers are not talking to us, but we can share stories through video and web.  With the new KORI media player, we are looking to...