January 23, 2015

My personal traits as a person that I chose were creativity, engaging, and respectful. these traits came out in my final project.

Creativity in the sense of the way that we designed the project, they layout the animations and the process of organizing what we wanted to convey in our instructional video.

Engaging, this is something that we both designed, we added the text for people who can read and need to see the text; also if they would like to use it in their own documentation. We added the audio so that it is friendly for younger children and people who are audio learners.

Respect, respect is important to me, I respect the information and the validity of it, we learned the process from our elders and parents and verified the information with my mother before we used any of it. Because we respect the traditional knowledge that we are going to putting up on Youtube for the world to see.

This project has been trying at times, but it is something that is of value for myself and future generations. When you live in an environment that is harsh as ours and a garment of clothing is the only thing that keeps you from freezing I think the right steps in making that piece of clothing is important. I tried to keep the assignment as direct and neat as possible.

Reflecting on how this course has been for me, I have had to adapt to so many different elements that I have gotten used to from our other teachers. The evaluation and criteria has had me all frazzled, I need more structure as a student. I need to know what to expect, what I need to put out, and how well I did it. I think that this is the basis for evaluation as a teacher. How we evaluate our students should have meaning and should be present and recorded because we have to be able to provide our student, their parents, and our supervisors with sound documentation of a child's learning.  

Journal January 22, 2015

This morning I'm very tired. my children were tired too it took everything we had to get ourselves out of the house this morning.  I think sitting at a screen all day long and even in the evening has me worn out this is a major project. last night we were on the phone with my mom verifying some information. I'm surprised that there has never been any documentation about this since there have been fur production courses in the past. or maybe there is maybe I never used the right words on google.

January 21, 2015

Today, I would love to put on the finishing touches on our project so that we can work on our resources and credits. I will email my mom today to make sure we have verified all our documents are true. I think our project needs more pictures so this afternoon we will go and take picture of our elders with finished caribou skin products. It should be fun! I have to say I have enjoyed doing this project with me best friend Casie, we work well off of each other and together as well.

Journal January 20, 2015

I thought I might never get out of bed. I was sick for a few days with the flu. I'm glad I'm up and about again. The project is going well Casie added most of the information we need and I added the animations and transitions, we work to each other's advantages and co-operate well together. I'm happy to have a partner like her. I Look forward to wrapping up this project it was a great experience. Even if I complained a lot in the process.

January 16, 2015

Today is a new day. I have been frustrated about my grade for assignment 2. this weekend I will work on improving my assignment so I can get a better grade. I am an 80's average student so the 65 has me in a downward spiral. Frustration, and confusion has had me trying to think where I could have gone wrong. I will work through the project looking at the anecdotal comments to improve the project.

The whole daycare incident has had me contemplating weather or not I should be on the board. I don't have confidence in our staff, and it seems like a huge liability issue; since we as the board could be held accountable had the outcome been worse.  

January 15, 2015

The final project seems to be taking shape. It is one subject that I feel passionately about, it also is a cultural based project; which i feel the Netsilik school very good at. They have a lot of cultural based programs including an annual caribou hunt, they have students clean skins. So I feel like the content is relavent to our community. I would really like to take pictures of how to prepare skins so this weekend I'm going to thaw out a raw skin to take pictures and videos of that process. I think Casie and I will be working it together time permitting. We have most of our dialog done, and next week would should be ready to start pulling everything together and putting it on PowerPoint usually I find ironing out the details takes the longest.

Journal January 14, 2015

The final assignment has me thinking it would be nice to take pictures of an elders preparing skins since they are the experts. I'm excited about this project since I know the basics about this and hope to learn more about it.

Here is a list of elders I think would be willing to do this:
Mary Ittunga
Bernadette Uttaq
Sarah Takolik
Philomina Totalik
I better ask Casie which elder she would like to interview.

January 13, 2015

Tuition is paid. I'm  a little on the fence about my grade for the last course, it is a god mark however I really think I can do better. I'm used to 90s average, I need to step it up a notch since I would really like to make NAC "Dean's list" next year. I don't like that I have this need to over achieve but it does have a purpose, it means that push myself harder. Or maybe at least the honors list. But I need to push myself harder for the next few years. 

My kids are tired, they did not want to do anything this morning which makes me tired. It means I have to dress, feed, and do every little thing for them. Oh well it doesn't last for ever, it just means that I have more work to do with my kids. A little autonomy is what is needed for my younger children. 

My parents made it to Iqaluit yesterday and I probably won't see them until March, I think this is why my spirits a little low. I look forward to when they move back here.

Journal Jan 12, 2015

All I want to be doing is sewing! I have started on a pair of seal skin mitts for my friends up coming birthday. I hope that he will like them. I like giving handmade gift to our friends, they are always around when we need them and are always willing to give us a hand or lend us a machine when we need one. It is these kinds of people have made my circle of friends.

Oh dear, our class can't stop laughing...

Journal Jan 9, 2015

Journal January 9th, 2015

 

 

Early this morning my cousin and his dad made is safely to town with the aid of two search and rescue volunteers! Sigh of relief to know that they are both safe and sound. I think they will rest up. I’m not sure if they are still planning on going Polar bear hunting. We knew that they were safe but the fact that they were stranded due to a blizzard had everyone worried.

 

On another note, it is so nice to have the blizzard over; I’m hoping we get more of them because last winter we never had any, so there was no snow at all which made it super dry in the summer and fall. It doesn’t seem like much however it made the lakes and rivers really low. Some streams and ponds dried up, which I have noticed has happened more over the years.

 

Now that January is here I’m looking forward to the upcoming fish and hunting year. I’m so excited to go camping especially since our cabin is ready to use at Netsilik lake. I’m also excited to head out to Pangnituq lake and other surrounding lakes. This year I would really like to do some seal hunting as well.

 

This course is going well, most of the content we are doing now I have dabbled in a little in the past and the refresher is nice. I am learning more about how to use excel and paint. Which I am happy about learning.

The weekend always goes too fast for me. A mountain of laundry kept me busy. Along with cooking, cleaning and grocery shopping so our family of 6 can stay well on track this week. We also took time to take my parents and one year old nephew to the airport. They are off to Iqaluit until March; it's hard today bye to my parents and I'm looking forward to when they finally move back here.

I have been thinking a lot about our next project and have started to write it out, I find it hard to zone in on the good traits that I have. I seem to find a little bit in that trait that is bad. For example I know that I have a ship load of patience, but when it comes to people who need to be told what is common sense to me I tend to use sarcasm a lot, which a lot of people don't understand. A mean streak I have tried so hard to conquer for some time now. I know I can keep it under control, however I should try harder. Another trait that I have is being very hard on myself, I am my own worst critic, I think it stems from wanting to do better, and try harder.

I'm looking forward to group work and using PowerPoint this week. I'm super excited about making the video, it mean that I have something in common with my older boys who competed in that field at skills Nunavut in Iqaluit last spring. Bring on this next week.

Journal-2. January 8th, 2015

Today we finally got out of the house! A two and a half day blizzard had our family inside suffering cabin fever. It seems to be amplified by the fact that some of my family members are stranded out on the land between here and Gjoa Haven. I know that they are okay but the fact that they are out there make things a little bit edgy. It'll be a happy moment when they are brought here. so we can all breath a sigh of relief.

It has been a rough couple of days. We have been conserving water to make sure we don't run out during the storm. This storm seems to have most of the north in its grip, it has several communities shut down.

Journal-1, January 5, 2015

My name is Corrine Boisvert, my life situation is great. I am at a point in my life where I am really happy. I have four amazing boys and am married to Rene Boisvert. I have never been so close to my parents and grandmother as I am right now. I have three brothers, one older and two younger. I have built up so many great friendships over the years. I can be described as a “super social” person; I get along well and enjoy spending time with friends and getting to know new people. My grandfather and my parents have instilled the value of education in me. They have always pushed me to get an education and taught me to go further and to be open and always learning. I see the need to bring that value of education to our home community because of the high drop-out rate and low graduation output. Also I see how it can link to increasing poverty in our small community. I hope to learn how to most effectively use a computer to teach children and pick up skills that I will need to teach children in our school.