First Mile Project – Ojibway Language App Story

August 16, 2012 by

Native Language First Nation App success story.

Usually reserved for First Nations connectivity and extensive infrasturcture projects, the First Mile.ca project website was extreamly excited to learn about our open source language project. They felt that our company played a signifigant role in preserving our traditional ancestrial Ojibway language.  The First Mile project team even wrote an in depth story on our Ojibway language app.

“Ogoki Learning Systems not only a great success story and example of traditional First Nation values, its more than that. It’s a point of significant pride among our First Nations people.” – Darrick Baxter, President, Ogoki Learning Systems Inc.

The First Mile project has included our story among other huge success stories including infrastucture builds, national projects, community projects and other important technology innovations.  The Ojibway language opensource project holds an important place in in the First Nations media industry. The opensource iPhone app code helps other communities build their own language app.

To download our app source code and create your own language app, be sure to check out the source code section on our website.

If you would like to view our videos on Youtube, be sure to check out out Youtube page at www.youtube.com/ogokiapps

Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/ogoki

Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ogokilearning

If you would like to find out more about our company and various apps, send us an email at darrick@ogokilearning.com

 

 

 

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We made the Ethnos Project ORG website!

April 9, 2012 by

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

  • affect social change,
  • sustain and stimulate the rapidly disappearing traditions and languages of Indigenous peoples, and
  • improve the quality of life of people on their own cultural terms.

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.

Open Source Native Language App Code

Read the full story!     http://www.ethnosproject.org/site/?p=1021 

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Bamoseda Radio Interviews Ogoki about Apps

February 14, 2012 by

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

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Our Ojibway App featured in Windspeaker Newspaper

February 14, 2012 by

Ojibway App National publication Windspeaker

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

 

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Soar Magazine Feature Article

February 7, 2012 by

Ogoki Learning Systems Inc. was recently featured in the Business Development Bank of Canada’s 18th edition of the SOAR Magazine. Read the article as it describes the history behind our president Mr. Baxter and how he triumphed and created the worlds first Ojibway Language App for the iPad.

Our Exciting App helps you learn about the Ojibway People

“I knew my skills were in demand, and I felt that I was ready to enter the workforce,” says Darrick. “It was exciting— working for someone else, spending the day in a downtown office.”

If you’re wondering how this story will end then follow us on Twitter and Join our group on Facebook

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Ojibway iPad App

November 3, 2011 by

The Ojibway – People and Language App is now available on iTunes!

Would you like more information on this app? Well, the Ojibway App is all grown up, it even has its own web page! http://www.ogokilearning.com/ojibway. We hope you download and enjoy the iPad app.

Have you downloaded this app and installed it on your iPad? Do you like the App? Would you like to talk to its creator?

Darrick Baxter darrickbaxter@gmail.com

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