Skills Development

 

 

Report and recommendation - Animation training

bullet En'owkin Beta Version Testing Report and Recommendation FNTC.pdf

 
 

Swan People (music provided by FNTC/ICT Summit 2009)

 
 

Dzawada’enuxw First Nations

 
 

FIT - Focus on Technology - 21st Century Learning

bullet Click Here to download document

 
 

BC Hydro Aboriginal Scholarships

The BC Hydro Aboriginal Scholarships are now available at:
www.bchydro.com/community/community_investment/scholarships.html

Successful applicants must use their scholarships in the year for which they were awarded. In order to provide opportunities to more British Columbians, you can only receive this award once.

• Eight $1,500 aboriginal scholarships, available to individuals who are status/non status Indians, Inuit or Métis and are residents of B.C. who plan to enrol in a full-time public post-secondary institution in Canada. Students pursuing an education in technology or engineering will be considered priority applicants. General Admission students are also encouraged to apply.

• One $2,000 Randy Brant Memorial scholarship based on a combination of academic achievement and outstanding community involvement. No essay is required.


Application form available to download.

BC Hydro Aboriginal Scholarship Poster Download (PDF, 799 KB)

BC Hydro Aboriginal Scholarships Application (PDF, 42.6 KB)
 
 
 

Case Study 2006-2008

The Impact of Technology on Stimulating Learning Opportunities(Yekooche Learning Centre)
 
 
 
 

Integrated Land Management Bureau - e-Tools and Services

First Nations Pilot Training Project

 

 

BC has natural resource data that is of interest to First Nations.  BC has also developed a suite of e-tools and services that they want to share with First Nations to better access natural resource data.  As such, in March 2007 the Integrated Land Management Bureau, in consultation with FNTC, hosted 3 pilot workshops to train the initial First Nation clients who had expressed an interest in learning ILMBs’ web-based analysis tools and services used to access this resource information. 

 

ILMB is committed to continuous improvement and this pilot was used to gather input on the ease of use of their tools and services and on the capacity of this pilot group to use the tools and services.  The resulting Report: First Nations Pilot Training Results and Recommendations identifies issues that ILMB has agreed to address, and raises issues that could be wide-spread in First Nations communities – i.e. lack of technical capacity, lack of time, lack of resources to incorporate new learning into current practice, etc.

 

FNTC would like to commend ILMB for publishing this Report, and for their commitment to work with us and all First Nations communities in BC to improve the capacity to access and use natural resources data.
 
e-Tools and Service Pilot Report

 

 
 

Everyone needs at least basic computer skills. It's not always easy to develop those skills if you live in a remote community but, if you have access to the Internet, you'll be able to access some very good training programs on-line. If your connection to the internet is too slow, most commercial software have training packages available on cd-rom. Packages to teach basic typing, word-processing, spreadsheets or presentation applications as well as web-site construction are readily available. We've listed just a few sites below as examples and would love to hear from you with the sites you've found to be most helpful. If you're having problems finding what you need, email the First Nations Technology Council at [email protected] and we'll do our best to help you.

Some useful online tools:

British Columbia Community Connectivity Coop www.bc3.ca

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) www.merlot.org/Home.po

Typing Pal Online www.typingpal.com

Learn 2 Type www.learn2type.com

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing www.5dollarsoftware.com/mabetety15.html

Microsoft at work: discover ways to work smarter www.microsoft.com/atwork/training.mspx