Educational software apps for classrooms
Indian Country Today Feature
Featured on the Indian Country Today Media Network.
This is an amazing opportunity for Ogoki Learning Systems Inc. to promote our free source code project. We’ve been fortunate enough to give away an important piece of technology and allow other Indian Tribes and First Nations from Canada, United States and all over the world to use these tools to help save their historical languages. We are creating our legacy by helping tribes save theirs. [Read more...]
Ogoki Learning Systems Inc. Ojibway App has made the Ethnos Project website for the advocacy of social projects to affect social change!
“Our small company out of Sandy Bay First Nation in Manitoba has affected social change and is helping save our Ojibway language. We have put a pin on the map. We are affecting social change internationally!” – Darrick Glen Baxter
The Ethnos Project is an advocacy blog and information resource focused on the ways that information and communications technologies (ICTs) are being used around the world to
This site is for scholars, activists, government agencies, non-governmental cultural organizations, Indigenous groups, and others interested in the use of ICTs for Indigenous knowledge management (IKM), development (ICT4D), social change, and other mindful solutions.
Read the full story! http://www.ethnosproject.org/site/?p=1021
Ogoki Learning Systems Inc. President and App Developer, Darrick Glen Baxter will be presenting during the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Economic Development Conference on the 3rd week of March 2012. The agenda has yet to be set and we will be posting the live stream video along with the full powerpoint presentation on our website.
We are proud to share our knowledge and sharing philosophy in order to build and strengthen the economic power of the First Nations people and communities. We continue to partner with local organizations to help develop and facilitate the advancement of First Nation economic, education, health and cultural development.
It is our goal to have our learning and educational tools in schools across the Province of Manitoba and to provide the tools for our youth to succeed in business and in life.
We invite you to attend this conference held at the Victoria Inn in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Contact the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs for details.
Shawn Atleo, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations talks about Language Apps
“You have it within your grasp to make sure that our culture
and our languages will live on strong into the future,
that future generations will know that you did your part”
Shawn Atleo, February 2012
Vancouver, BC. – National Chief Shawn Atleo, of the Assembly of First Nations spoke about our Ojibway Language App after talking with president of Ogoki Learning Systems Inc. His message to our youth.
On February of 2012, Ogoki Learning Systems Inc. presented our Language App at the First Nations ICT Summit in Vancouver BC. It was well received and extremely successful. The conference was attended by over 150 First Nations delegates from across North America and abroad.
Listen to us live
The world loves great apps, especially if their free. The Bamoseda radio program helped us promote our app across Canada by featuring our story in 2011.
The Ojibway app was also featured on a syndicated radio program. It’s true, our radio interview with Bamoseda, the Aboriginal News Magazine can be listened to archived on the Bamoseda radio programs website.
Lets talk about Apps and how they can engage our First Nations Youth.
We would you love to tell you our story. Its both current and inspirational. Let us to present our inspirational story at your event and engage your audience with our unique video presentation and experiences.
Drop us a line via email at darrick@ogokilearning.com
Did you know that the Ojibway Language and People App was featured in a national Aboriginal publication? It’s true! Our little Ojibway App is garnering national attention throughout Canada. The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society (AMMSA) recently featured our app in the Windspeaker National Newspaper.
Written by Jennifer Ashawasegai and published this fall, the article tells you part of the story on how and more importantly why the Ojibway app was created.
“We have to start preserving this language. We have to start preserving our heritage. And the best way to do it is to get it into schools. Schools are really relying on digital technology to sort of retain the students’ attention.”
Read the full Windspeaker article
What’s the Big Idea? on APTN
The Ojibway people and language (formally the Kookum’s Ojibway) app was featured on APTN’s show, Whats the Big Idea as Mr. Baxter faces the lights, camera and critical judges as part of a wonderful team of Aboriginal entrepreneurs. You be the judge, what business would you choose to invest in and support?
Aboriginal innovators from across Canada converge in Hamilton, Ontario where their idea has a chance of winning cash or investment capital.
Did you watch the show? Drop us a line at darrick@ogokilearning.com
The first and only Ojibway app available on the Apple platform is making waves in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry. With over 3000 downloads in its first couple months, the Ojibway People and Language app is gaining in popularity and even has its own fan following.
“We get at least 10 to 15 requests a week from the public to include features, new languages, other words and phrases and games. We just cant keep up. We need to start training more youth to create these apps and mobile tools.” – Ogoki Learning Systems Inc.
A recent story published in the “ICT Best Practices in Rural, Remote & Aboriginal Communities” is telling the full story on how our mobile app made it in a field of over 500,000 apps.
Ogoki Learning Systems Inc. is currently looking for partners in delivering specialized education and training to First Nation communities that will teach the youth how to program and create apps for the Apple iPhone or iPad.
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