Slides for the panel presentation and includes indigenous information literacy OER, little free libraries, oral history collection, National Council for Truth & Reconciliation Archives, and microlearning program. Presented at NWILL conference on September 2, 2021.
Microlearning are short free learning sessions offered in the area of learning the Cree language, developing apps, indigenous technology, communications, academic writing skills, film poetry, Meet and Greet experts, and mental health. Microlearning services provide lifelong learning opportunities in collaboration with many local, regional, national and international partners in the following areas.
• Online Teaching and Learning
• Technology and Communications
• Empathy, Mental health and Wellness
• Indigenizing
• Cree language and culture
• Academic discipline specific: Sociology, Criminology
280 free microlearning programs delivered in 2021.
9065 recordings requested and 5898 live attendees for the Microlearning Services in 2021.
Re-awakening the 'Peoples University' - the learning agenda opportunity to reinvigorate public libraries. Community, informal (outside formal academic institutions) and online learning is a growing, disruptive opportunity. Learning happens best where there is a ‘community’ of support and good learning spaces. Public libraries have an opportunity to thrive if they develop the right capabilities to deliver a compelling learning offer. Presented at the CILIP "Re-imaging Learning" Executive Briefing on 13th November 2014
"New librarians worldwide: mapping out the future"
LOIDA GARCIA-FEBO (Queens Library, Queens, NY, USA) and ROBIN KEAR (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Session 95: "Strategies for library associations: include new professionals now!"
Management of Library Associations with the New Professionals Special Interest Group
13 August 2012, 09:30 - 12:45, Room: 6
http://conference.ifla.org/ifla78/session-95
WLIC2012
"Libraries Now! - Inspiring, Surprising, Empowering"
IFLA World Library and Information Congress
78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
11-17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland
http://conference.ifla.org/ifla78/
Library Services in the Grossmont Union High School Districtslmontgomery
A presentation about library services in the Grossmont Union High School District, given by district teacher-librarians as part of a two-day professional development workshop for district administrators on June 28, 2011.
In "The Library of Babel," Jorge Luis Borges described a vast library with no circumference and no center, a library exhilarating in its infinite scope but where knowledge is always frustratingly out of reach. He seemed to be describing the information landscape as today’s students experience it. How can we help students learn how to navigate their way through the Library of Babel? What role does finding, evaluating, and using sources play in the major? How do skills and dispositions students acquire by engaging in inquiry contribute to lifelong learning and engaged citizenship? In this workshop [at Illinois Wesleyan University in January 2012] faculty will be invited to consider what students need to become information literate and will work on embedding critical information literacy into courses and programs.
Microlearning are short free learning sessions offered in the area of learning the Cree language, developing apps, indigenous technology, communications, academic writing skills, film poetry, Meet and Greet experts, and mental health. Microlearning services provide lifelong learning opportunities in collaboration with many local, regional, national and international partners in the following areas.
• Online Teaching and Learning
• Technology and Communications
• Empathy, Mental health and Wellness
• Indigenizing
• Cree language and culture
• Academic discipline specific: Sociology, Criminology
280 free microlearning programs delivered in 2021.
9065 recordings requested and 5898 live attendees for the Microlearning Services in 2021.
Re-awakening the 'Peoples University' - the learning agenda opportunity to reinvigorate public libraries. Community, informal (outside formal academic institutions) and online learning is a growing, disruptive opportunity. Learning happens best where there is a ‘community’ of support and good learning spaces. Public libraries have an opportunity to thrive if they develop the right capabilities to deliver a compelling learning offer. Presented at the CILIP "Re-imaging Learning" Executive Briefing on 13th November 2014
"New librarians worldwide: mapping out the future"
LOIDA GARCIA-FEBO (Queens Library, Queens, NY, USA) and ROBIN KEAR (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Session 95: "Strategies for library associations: include new professionals now!"
Management of Library Associations with the New Professionals Special Interest Group
13 August 2012, 09:30 - 12:45, Room: 6
http://conference.ifla.org/ifla78/session-95
WLIC2012
"Libraries Now! - Inspiring, Surprising, Empowering"
IFLA World Library and Information Congress
78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
11-17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland
http://conference.ifla.org/ifla78/
Library Services in the Grossmont Union High School Districtslmontgomery
A presentation about library services in the Grossmont Union High School District, given by district teacher-librarians as part of a two-day professional development workshop for district administrators on June 28, 2011.
In "The Library of Babel," Jorge Luis Borges described a vast library with no circumference and no center, a library exhilarating in its infinite scope but where knowledge is always frustratingly out of reach. He seemed to be describing the information landscape as today’s students experience it. How can we help students learn how to navigate their way through the Library of Babel? What role does finding, evaluating, and using sources play in the major? How do skills and dispositions students acquire by engaging in inquiry contribute to lifelong learning and engaged citizenship? In this workshop [at Illinois Wesleyan University in January 2012] faculty will be invited to consider what students need to become information literate and will work on embedding critical information literacy into courses and programs.
"Locating librarianship's Identity in its historical roots of professional philosophies: towards a radical new identity for librarians of today (and tomorrow)"
SARA WINGATE GRAY (Department of Information Studies, University College London, London, United Kingdom)
Session 95: "Strategies for library associations: include new professionals now!"
Management of Library Associations with the New Professionals Special Interest Group
13 August 2012, 09:30 - 12:45, Room: 6
http://conference.ifla.org/ifla78/session-95
WLIC2012
"Libraries Now! - Inspiring, Surprising, Empowering"
IFLA World Library and Information Congress
78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
11-17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland
http://conference.ifla.org/ifla78/
Communities | Engagement | Libraries: A Collection of Case stories from acros...Rajat Kumar
The intention of this document is to capture best practices and to bring to light some of the inspiring models in public libraries across India.
These case studies were chosen on the basis of: Access, Communication, Competence, Credibility, Reliability, Responsiveness, Security, Tangibles, Content & Services and Methods
Yohtênikâtêw Kiskêyihtamâwin Kikâ Waskawîhtâhk
Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Theme: Using open educational practices and resources in our institutions
Presentation for Librarian/Archivists/Technology Conference held at the Academy in St. Charles on April 17, 2010 for the Network of Sacred Heart Schools.
Additional challenges added by the group (slide 5):
*Collaboration
*Communication
*Speed of Change
*Time
*Technology
*Misunderstood
*Money
*Skill Sets
*Obsolescence
Andrea Coffin (WiLS) and Rose Fortier (Marquette University) presentation at the Brown Deer Public Library to Milwaukee County librarians. March 24th, 2014.
The changing role of libraries in the knowledge-based economy and sustainable...e-Marefa
This keynote address was made at the second international conference of the Lebanese Library Association in Beirut under the title of Thinking together: innovate, share, preserve and access.
Envisioning the library of the future is a major research project undertaken by the Arts Council in 2012/13 that will help us to understand the future for libraries, and how we can enable them to develop.
This presentation is made during the 4th CERN-UNESCO School on Digital libraries 2016. African libraries are invited to focus more in content, especially the local one, rather than software issues when they build digital libraries.
"Locating librarianship's Identity in its historical roots of professional philosophies: towards a radical new identity for librarians of today (and tomorrow)"
SARA WINGATE GRAY (Department of Information Studies, University College London, London, United Kingdom)
Session 95: "Strategies for library associations: include new professionals now!"
Management of Library Associations with the New Professionals Special Interest Group
13 August 2012, 09:30 - 12:45, Room: 6
http://conference.ifla.org/ifla78/session-95
WLIC2012
"Libraries Now! - Inspiring, Surprising, Empowering"
IFLA World Library and Information Congress
78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
11-17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland
http://conference.ifla.org/ifla78/
Communities | Engagement | Libraries: A Collection of Case stories from acros...Rajat Kumar
The intention of this document is to capture best practices and to bring to light some of the inspiring models in public libraries across India.
These case studies were chosen on the basis of: Access, Communication, Competence, Credibility, Reliability, Responsiveness, Security, Tangibles, Content & Services and Methods
Yohtênikâtêw Kiskêyihtamâwin Kikâ Waskawîhtâhk
Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Theme: Using open educational practices and resources in our institutions
Presentation for Librarian/Archivists/Technology Conference held at the Academy in St. Charles on April 17, 2010 for the Network of Sacred Heart Schools.
Additional challenges added by the group (slide 5):
*Collaboration
*Communication
*Speed of Change
*Time
*Technology
*Misunderstood
*Money
*Skill Sets
*Obsolescence
Andrea Coffin (WiLS) and Rose Fortier (Marquette University) presentation at the Brown Deer Public Library to Milwaukee County librarians. March 24th, 2014.
The changing role of libraries in the knowledge-based economy and sustainable...e-Marefa
This keynote address was made at the second international conference of the Lebanese Library Association in Beirut under the title of Thinking together: innovate, share, preserve and access.
Envisioning the library of the future is a major research project undertaken by the Arts Council in 2012/13 that will help us to understand the future for libraries, and how we can enable them to develop.
This presentation is made during the 4th CERN-UNESCO School on Digital libraries 2016. African libraries are invited to focus more in content, especially the local one, rather than software issues when they build digital libraries.
This is a presentation about the Digital Public Library of America, originally created in May 2014. It shows the greater access to various materials than can be had if one participates.
Presentation during World Digital Preservation Day 2018 and International Conference 'Memory Makers' organised by DPC and the Dutch Digital Heritage Network
Planning and Implementing a Digital Library ProjectJenn Riley
Riley, Jenn. "Planning and Implementing a Digital Library Project," Indiana LSTA Digital Project Planning Workshop, December 15, 2006, Peabody Public Library, Columbia City, IN and December 16, 2006, Porter County Public Library, Valpairaiso, IN.
Indigenous Digital Archive - IIIF at MoMA May 2016Anna Naruta-Moya
Slides for presentation at MoMA, IIIF 2016 event. Video of day's talks at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYPP1-8uH9c5smSD2wyVgsqKxD218khZq This was co-presentation with Mark Matienzo, who kindly presented my slides when our team was not able to attend.
Indigenous subject headings modification project May 4,2020Manisha Khetarpal
This presentation was delivered at the MCC microlearning session on May 4, 2020. Information includes Indigenous Subject Headings Modification Project (ISHM), Description is Quite Complex, Library of Congress Subject Headings, Canadian Subject Headings, Culturally Insensitivity of Subject Headings, CFLA recommendations 2016, Manitoba Archives Project mandate and working group, Indigenous Subject Headings Modification Project at RRC Library, and the process of editing subject headings. Challenges include different ways to spell indigenous data and training component for all of our users to decolonize and use new subject headings.
Go Fish Information Literacy program was launched in 2014. Reports shows that increase in information literacy sessions results in an increase in the use of online databases.
Building relationships with our researchers September 17,2019 Manisha Khetarpal
This presentation describes the process of inviting a non indigenous researcher to a research class taught at tribal college. Best practices to prepare students and to share the customary indigenous Maskwacis protocols are described to foster relationship between all the stakeholders.
Revenue and resource generating presentation, October 11, 2019Manisha Khetarpal
Ayamitah BBq and book giveaway program, Youth summit program, Oypayo mamtonichikan saytoskotatowin continuing education model, and accountability brochures are featured in this presentation. Lessons learned are shared.
245 children participated in the summer reading program hosted by the Maskwac...Manisha Khetarpal
This accountability report has details of the reading program offered by the Maskwacis Cultural College Library. 2019 is the UNESCO's Year of Indigenous Languages and this report includes the Cree words are children are familiar with. WE are grateful to our book donors Save the Children Canada and their corporate partner Scholastic for providing us with books to give away to indigenous families in our communities.
Moving Forward Looking Back - Summer library initiativesManisha Khetarpal
Moving Forward Looking Back - Summer library initiatives
This summer we had a team of five summer students and they worked on the Moving Forward Looking Back initiatives. With lots of conversations, dialogues, reflections the students focused on four themes: Skill development via the summer experiential learning program, Partnerships created via book giveaways, Youth Summit event which involved hearing the voices of our youth, and let’s learn project management skills by viewing the book giveaway timeline and history. Based on these four themes the following seven brochures were created by our summer students.
This brochures features the 7th annual youth summit hosted and coordinated by the Maskwacis Cultural College Library. Working team - Youth Summit Working Group - Darryl Montour (Student), Jerilee Buffalo (Summer Student), Quincey Buffalo (Student), Violet Soosay (Culture and language) and Manisha Khetarpal (Supervisor)
Story in Numbers:
• 6 presenters
• 62 participants
• 4 displays
• 1 ACE test
• 12 handouts
• 1 youth coordinator
• 4 summer youth skills program coordinators working with Ermineskin, Louis Bull, Samson, and Montana
The Samson Summer Student Program is an opportunity for students, who are continuing to go back to school in the fall, a chance to work during the summer time. Students have the opportunity to work with the business in their community, such as the Band Office, Community Initiatives, Maskwacis Cultural College, the Howard Buffalo Memorial Center (HBMC), the Friendship Center, Nipisikopahk Education Association, and many other business offered within the Program. This program has given students an income to help with their future for school and has given them an excellent amount of work experience that would look amazing on a resume. Plus, acquire a reference letter. The summer students of MCC show the multiple skills students learned working for the program.
Maskwacis Cultural College's continuing education program offered 58 learning opportunities, 296 instruction hours, and trained 1151 learners in 2018.
Next steps: Noncredit policy approved. Prepare process guidelines.
MCC’s 7th annual ATCO BBQ story in numbers 5000 books distributed, 1200 people participated, 775 school students, 15 partners, 8 vendors, 9 Cree language activities, 12 door prizes given away, 46 volunteers; practicum students from ECD 100, CS1102, EDPSY 1500 earned experiential learning credits, 1200 people enjoyed the BBQ (includes take outs by head starts), 28 classes attended; Schools from Maskwacis, Wetaskiwin, Ponoka participated; 11,625 minutes read recorded by participants, 193 hours of reading time recorded by participants, and 196 minutes read aloud to children by volunteer readers.
Next steps: Prepare a toolkit based on May 29, 2019 event. Present at ATALM in October 2019.
MCC’s 7th annual book giveaway: 35,090 books given away across 35 occasions in 2018.
Next steps: Giveaway at the Awasisak conference on July 18 and Samson Powwow. Replicate MCC model in another community.
24,801 books were given away across 16 different activity categories such as:
• Events
• Literacy
• Conferences
• Programs
• Meetings
• Schools
• And other organizations
The time period of distribution was 2019 during January to June of 2019.
35,090 books were given away across 18 different activity categories such as:
• Powwows
• Celebrations
• Parades
• Job fairs
• Youth planning events
• Awasisak conference
• Treaty 6 education assistant conference, etc.
Books were given away across 35 activities.
This initiative can be used as a model of delivering library and literacy services.
This is an accountability report for the books distributed at the Awasisak conference. The books were also distributed to the employees working at River Cree hotel. Maskwacis Cultural College gave away 2000 books at the Awasisak Conference in 2019 (see charts within brochure). Participants from the Treaty 6 area had taken some books. These areas covered were: Samson, Ermineskin, Saddle Lake, Louis Bull, Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation, Paul First Band, Thunderchild, Loon River, Montana, and Enoch. Librarian Manisha Khetarpal did a presentation about the power of songs, rhymes and early literacy development.
Maskwacis cultural college library and their services Manisha Khetarpal
This presentation is prepared by Kashius Montour as part of his work placement during the summer summer of 2018 at the Maskwacis Cultural College Library.
Youth Summit was hosted in partnership with PolicyWise, Alberta Health Services and many local partners on July 16, 2019 at the Maskwacis Cultural College Library. The theme this year was, 'Link of Identify with Mental Health for Youth'.
Continuing education program model Oyipayô Mâmitonêyhcikan SîtoskotâtôwinManisha Khetarpal
Oyipayô Mâmitonêyhcikan Sîtoskotâtôwin Moulding the Mind Collective model was used to plan and implement more than 70 programs which were offered during June 2017 to December 2018. The four phases of this agile design model are learners and collaboration; compliance for cost, space, instructors, and resources; implement the learning circle; and evaluation.
Simple 4 step model
1. Network partnership: Learners have identified their learning need. Collaboration to get instructors. Program design and development. Strengthen the network
2. Compliance - cost, time, credibility, continuing education and professional credits, PLAR, etc
3. Learning circle: Recruit more learners Just do it. Let's learn. HOST A LEARNING CIRCLE.
4. Evaluation. Identify the next learning need and keep the learning circle moving and connecting
More than 35,000 books were given away across 35 different activities in 2018. This accountability report appreciates the contributions of our donors and volunteers.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptx
Tribal libraries and archives panel session - NWILL, September 2021
1. Tribal Library and Archives
Panel
Rachel, Aaron, Phillipa, Raymond, and Manisha
NWILL, September 2, 2 pm MT
2. Topics
● Indigenous Information literacy OER on Pressbooks by Rachel
● Little Free Libraries by Aaron
● Oral History collection by Philippa
● National Council for Truth and Reconciliation Infrastructure by Raymond
● Microlearning Program by Manisha
10. Creating an Oral History Collection
with Limited Experience and Resources
Why Oral History for Tribal Libraries and Archives?
● Subjective historical narrative that can add unique perspectives and insights to previously
published material (academic books, newsprint articles, reports, etc.)
● Oral History Methodology complements Oral Tradition that is often practiced within
Indigenous communities
In summary, I think Oral Histories allow Tribal Communities to “tell our own stories in our own
voices”
Speaker: Phillipa Rosman
Branch Librarian
Dine College Library, Shiprock NM
campus
Navajo Nation
11. Oral History process
1. Decide on a historical event, period, or subject
2. Conduct research and produce preliminary documents: timeline,
consent form, interview questions, outline for interview questions
3. Select interview candidates
4. Conduct interviews, observing Best Practices regarding:
setting, format (visual and/or audio), ethics
5. Process interviews: create time log or transcript,
determine storage and access, apply metadata
12. Online Resources for Information and Examples
International Oral History Association—a professional organization established to provide a forum for oral historians around the world. The IOHA
offers: international conferences, collaborative networks, and support for national oral history organizations.
International Oral History Association | IOHA
Oral History Association—this website provides a wide range of information related to Oral History Methodology. It offers information regarding
Principles and Best Practices; links to publications, webinars, and podcasts related to Oral History; and resources.
Oral History Association
Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change—this is a network of oral historians, activists, community organizers, documentary artists, and
cultural workers that use oral history for social change. The organization’s mission is to provide support, training, and resources in the practice of
applied, community-based oral history in order to build the creativity and power of social justice movements.
GROUNDSWELL (oralhistoryforsocialchange.org)
Oral History Society—this is an organization based in the United Kingdom. Access to some of their resources requires a subscription but some
material you can access for free.
Home - Oral History Society (ohs.org.uk)
16. Canada Foundation for
Innovation Grant
9/7/2021
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Mandate: The CFI makes financial contributions to Canada’s universities,
colleges, research hospitals and non-profit research organizations to increase
their capability to carry out high quality research.
Objectives:
1. Increase Canada’s capability to carry out important world-class scientific research and
technology development;
2. Support economic growth and job creation, as well as health and environmental quality
through innovation;
3. Expand research and job opportunities by providing support through research
infrastructure for the development of highly qualified personnel;
4. Promote productive networks and collaboration among Canadian universities, colleges,
research hospitals, non-profit research institutions and the private sector.
17. What is Research Infrastructure
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The infrastructure funded by the CFI includes the state-of-the-art
equipment, laboratories, databases, specimens, scientific
collections, computer hardware and software, communications
linkages and buildings necessary to conduct leading-edge
research.
18. Innovative research in the Context of the NCTR: a difficult fit.
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This project implements the National Centre for Truth and
Reconciliation's (NCTR) digital architecture. It enables
advanced discovery and access of digital archival records to
promote innovative research meaningful to Indigenous
communities; it uniquely provides researchers materials to
theorize oppression and disrupt the colonial relationships
between academic researchers and Indigenous communities.
1. Reframe the Concept of Innovative
Research through Decolonization
19. Innovative research in the Context of the NCTR: a difficult fit
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2. Place Innovative research into the Residential School Experience
Access to the NCTR archives is a public good. This proposed infrastructure will enable
vital digital projects: to identify the children lost at RS; to discover the locations of
unmarked RS children's grave sites; to create a statistical analysis of the health and
welfare legacy of RS; to design collaborative and innovative health and education
programs with Indigenous communities. This digital infrastructure promotes reconciliation
through acknowledgement. It is a recognition that we are what we choose to remember;
but we are also what we choose to forget.
20. What is a Decolonizing Archives?
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1. Recognizes the embedded colonizing role played by traditional colonial archives;
2. Acknowledges the overlapping multiplicity of rights, provenance and the diverse meanings embodied in the archival
document. It recognizes that archival evidence is not a fact; it is a matrix of relationships, and like all relationships, it is
vulnerable to trust and mistrust, good faith and manipulation.
3. A living archive, a place of gathering and participation. It does not preserve static records frozen in time, but
recognizes their dynamic, evolving intergenerational meaning for communities and individuals.
4. Provide a social memory infrastructure that supports Indigenous cognitive practices, Indigenous knowledge methods
and social protocols;
5. Breaks out of the textual paradigm of archival evidence. It will build on the digital potential to interrelate diverse genres
of social memory to create a holistic centre of social memory, recognizing the spiritual and environmental in the
context of local social sanction;
6. Offer a safe and accessible space for Indigenous peoples to learn of and freely express their views of the legacy of the
RS experience, and for a settler society to listen, encounter, acknowledge and reconcile.
21. 1. Upgrade the IT infrastructure to better manage, technically and culturally, the NCTRs
digital material;
2. Collaborate with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) to preserve and make
accessible the over 7,000 Survivors’ statements;
3. Collaborate with the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) to study the
longitudinal, adult health legacy of childhood, RS trauma; to take the evidence created
from this unprecedented study to design in partnership with Indigenous communities,
new models of health care delivery, child welfare, and education programs;
4. Design free NCTR data workshops for Indigenous researchers and community
representatives to consult the NCTR data in an Indigenous driven approach to
researching the RS archival records;
5. Design an open source IT platform to support a collaborative national register of
unmarked gravesites and a related missing children database.
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Principle Projects of the CFT Proposal
22. 1. data cleaning (i.e. verification, editing), coding, format conversion,
data entry and data transfer;
2. design, development, beta testing, piloting, commissioning and
integration of the database;
3. merge and organization of existing data that are not already in usable
reference units;
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Component One: Information Architecture:
CFI Section: 4.6.3 Databases and digital libraries
23. Component Two: NFB Collaboration
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Determine effective process to preserve and make available the TRCs
recorded public hearings.
• Transcode diverse AV file formats to preservation formats with
appropriate metadata related according to the OAIS model
• Design a process to preserve the 88 TB of b-roll recordings created
during the public hearings but not included in the final compilation of
the session file
• Create “mezzanine” versions of recordings for more sophisticated
access and discovery and interrelationhips with the greater set of
RS school records.
24. Component 3: Collaborate with the Manitoba Centre for Health
Policy to Study the Social Legacies of Residential Schools
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The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) will relate health, education, and social
welfare records to NCTR archival records through unique de-identifying applications
developed by the MCHP. With privacy ensured, the MCHP will apply statistical analysis
to interrelated NCTR and Manitoba Health records. The result will be longitudinal
research on seven generations of Indigenous RS survivors to better understand
downstream health, education and community histories. This is an internationally
unprecedented deep analysis of the social effects of childhood trauma. It holds the
potential of unprecedented policy and program development designed collaboratively
between settler institutions and Indigenous communities.
25. Component 4: Design free NCTR data workshops for Indigenous
researchers and community representatives to consult the NCTR data
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This project uses the open source statistics application known as R,
supported in the proposed IT Architecture. Band councils,
community members, and independent Indigenous researchers will
be able to consult the NCTR data in collaboration with DB experts.
In this unique approach to statistical analysis, Indigenous
community will drive data consultation.
26. Component 5: Design an open source IT platform to support a national
register of unmarked gravesites and a related missing children database.
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In response to TRC Calls to Action (CTA) 73–76, the NCTR is creating an unmarked
RS gravesites national register. The TRC estimates the RS program created over
400 unmarked gravesites across the country. The NCTR will engage with
Indigenous communities to ensure a trustworthy record of these unmarked
gravesites is appropriately preserved for generations. The NCTR will use the new IT
Architecture to uniquely combine an open source suite of technologies—
participatory GIS, relational database, ground penetrating radar data—to promote
Indigenous community control over the ownership, use, and access to the full
collection of gravesite data using the model of OCAP® principles.
29. How did the Microlearning get started?
Students were not allowed to physically access their practicum sites. Hence, we created
collaborative practicum opportunities. Implementing planned face to face training. We had
planned our 4th First Nations Knowledge Services Without Borders Institute Gathering in
April of 2020. This week-long event was split to once a week for five weeks.
Microlearning was started in March of 2020. From March 2020 to May 2021 we have
offered more than 225 microlearning sessions.
● Virtual practicum for students
● Instructors and staff professional development
● Implement the face to face programs planned in March of 2020
30. What is Microlearning?
Microlearning are short free learning sessions offered in the area of learning the
Cree language, developing apps, indigenous technology, communications,
academic writing skills, film poetry, Meet and Greet experts, and mental health.
Microlearning services provide lifelong learning opportunities in collaboration
with many local, regional, national and international partners.
Microlearning is delivered in synchronous, asynchronous and blended styles.
31. Vision: Making learning possible for everyone via
ethical reciprocity.
Mission: Building learning [space] circles and
networks where learners will gain knowledge and
skills which are transferable across a variety of
settings and make new connections.
Schedule: http://continuingeducationi.blogspot.com/
37. Call for Partnership
1. Add microlearning to your program calendar and increase the variety
of programs you offer to your community or organization
2. Use microlearning live or recorded sessions as professional
development for staff
3. Use microlearning videos to develop or update online courses
4. View program calendar http://continuingeducationi.blogspot.com/
To collaborate contact Manisha by email mkhetarpal@mccedu.ca