Moodle – Leszek’s ETEC521 Blog

http://firstnationspedagogy.com/index.html

This is a site maintained by June Kaminski, a Metis with degrees in Nursing and soon, a PhD in Curriculum Studies and Technology Education.

Just as we as students of ETEC521 are working through this course to better understand indigenous cultures and issues related to education and technology, this site helps teachers, health professionals, and anyone working with first nations to become more aware of issues related to first nations educational initiatives.

For anyone developing online courses for First Nations, this site has a wealth of helpful articles, references and guidelines, including a very helpful report on the Pedagogical considerations of using Moodle as a tool for course development.

k-net

Keewaytinook Okimakanak (www.knet.ca) is an Aboriginal tribal council in northern Ontario (Canada) that uses Moodle to provide eLearning programs for primary, secondary and adult learners in remote First Nations communities. I’m a huge proponent of open source learning technologies, so it is nice to see Moodle being adopted by indigenous community groups. One of the limitations of
mainstream learning management systems and learning technologies is that they are limited to mainstream language groups. It’s not cost effective for the large vendors to support indigenous language groups. Moodle allows users to develop their own language packs. It seems that an Oji-Cree language pack is being developed by the the Kwayaciiwin Resource Centre (http://www.kwayaciiwin.com) in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, with support from knet.