Indigenous Education Network Week in Review: October 21

Ahnii and good afternoon everyone,

Each and every week the volunteers at the Indigenous Education Network (IEN) are hard at work planning and organizing cultural events that are educational and inspirational for you – the members, and friends of the IEN – to ensure your time at the University of Toronto is as rich and rewarding as the quality of education you are receiving.

To help you stay up-to-date on what is happening and what has happened at the IEN and around campus, we have launched the IEN Week in Review.

Please feel free to forward this to your friends and colleagues, and if you have any feedback for us we would love to hear from you.

Have a safe weekend!

Miigwetch – IENTwitter: @IENatOISE and @SuzanneLStewartSlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/IENatOISE.

Dr. Suzanne Stewart Presents at NMHAC 2011

Last week in Victoria, BC, Dr. Suzanne L. Stewart (better known as Suzanne) along with her colleague and research partner Dr. Anne Marshall, presented at the Native Mental Health Association of Canada’s national conference.

The Presentation, titled Traditional cultural perspectives and interventions for supporting Indigenous youth in employment: Work-life as mental health & healing, detailed their current research which examines young urban Aboriginal people’s experiences of the supports, challenges and barriers they have faced and are facing in their quest to find sustainable work.

A copy of the presentation is available for download at: http://www.slideshare.net/IENatOISE/nmhac-2011

IEN Speaker Series Next Week

But we don’t have any Aboriginal students in our school!Investigating the Complexities of Decolonizing and Indigenizing Teacher Education

Who: Dr. Susan D. Dion, Associate Professor, Aboriginal Education, Faculty of Education, York UniversityWhere: 252 Bloor St. W., Toronto, ON, OISE Room 5280When: Tuesday, October 25, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Abstract: Although teachers are committed to issues of equity and social justice, decolonizing and indigenizing teacher education presents particular challenges. Drawing on her recent research and teaching experiences, Dr. Dion explore the complexities that teachers and teacher educators encounter when questions of decolonizing and indigenizing are taken up in elementary, secondary or university classrooms. More info at: http://www.slideshare.net/IENatOISE/2011-1012-poster-for-susan-dion-talk-final

SOCIAL ECONOMY CENTRE Lunchbox Speakers' Panel - MIZIWE BIIK: A MICRO-FINANCING PROGRAM FOR THE URBAN ABORIGINAL

*Free- no registration required

Presenter: Kenn Ross, Manager, will discuss the program and the challenges to operating and sustaining the program. Melanie Ferris will discuss her experience as a loan recipient. Melanie is a business woman specializing in plain language communication services.  She is a past winner of Miziwe Biik’s Business Woman of the Year Award.Date: Wednesday October 26, 2011Time: Noon to 1:30pmLocation: OISE Room 3-104 This event will be webcast live. Further details at http://socialeconomycentre.ca/speakers-series

Thinking of becoming a teacher? Let's talk.

Do you know any Aboriginal youth who are interested in becoming a teacher? If so, please let them know about the Teacher Education Information Night.

Wednesday November 2nd 4:15pmOISE auditorium, main floor252 Bloor Street West (St. George Station)Map - http://map.utoronto.ca/building/123

Aboriginal Scholarship Guide

Windspeaker and AMMSA maintain an extensive list of scholarships and bursaries available to Aboriginal students.

If you are a Canadian Native (First Nations, non-status, Métis, Inuit) student, there are a variety of available funding sources to help offset the financial burden of receiving an education. Please check the lists to determine which programs you may qualify for, and then contact the program administrators directly. More info available at: http://www.ammsa.com/community-access/scholarships

Speak Up and Get Involved

Did you know that the IEN is here for you – students, staff and faculty? And as such, we want to hear from you.

Got an idea you want to share with us, or share on your behalf? Send it to us and we’ll send it out to the 297 (and growing) people on our listserv. Or maybe you want us to sponsor an event? Get in touch with us or send us a proposal as we’re always looking for new and creative ways to support our members while increasing awareness about the IEN and the work we, and of course, the work all of you do.

For those of you looking for ways to get involved and meet new people it’s as easy as attending our next meeting on Friday, October 28 at 1 p.m. in OISE room 5280

Social Media Update

As most of you are aware by now we have signed up with two new social networking sites: Twitter and SlideShare. Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting. SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations, and was recently voted amongst the World's Top 10 tools for education & elearning.

We are please to say that our Twitter account attracted 57 followers in the week-and-a-half it has been operational. Additionally, our SlideShare documents and presentations have been viewed and or downloaded a combined 210 times in one week. WOW!!!

If you haven’t checked out and signed up with these sites yet we highly recommend you do. They are an excellent way to share your work with a much wider audience.

IEN Student Lounge Hours

Located in OISE room 7-160 the IEN Student Lounge is a quiet place for you to meet with friends, meet new friends, hang out, or simply study. The lounge is open Wed and Thurs from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., and on Fri from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is also available on Mon and Tues upon request.