VISITOR FEEDBACK
If you have any suggestions or comments, please contact:
Minnie McKenzie - Site Coordinator for Instructional Development.
Regarding links, text, audio/visual media or any other site content, contact:
Charlie Venne - Web Developer - chvenne@llrib.ca
cv2k@hotmail.com
Or use our Contact Form.
Your feedback on any subject is greatly appreciated (comments may be posted on this page at our discretion).
| Christine McKenzie | August 23, 2009 |
Hello to all staff...awesome job on the website.I know my children like to learn things from the website so I would just like to say thank you for it. My question is about the curriculum....who is it available to? Is it strictly for teachers or will it be possible for a student to purchase or use? Another question, are you developing a Dene curriculum as well? Ekosi teniki |
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| Reply by Minnie McKenzie | |
| The curriculum resources are available on the website and they can be downloaded. The same resources can be purchased by anyone and the order form is also available on-line. There are Dene resources available and they are listed on the order form. Thank you for using the website and feel welcome to suggest more language lessons for your children, we will do our best to provide the new innovative language lessons. | |
| Candace (Longjohn) Constant | April 19, 2007 |
| This site is amazing Edie, you and your colleagues have done a wonderful job! Everything so far is so interactive its great! Will recommend this site to others like myself who are starving to learn the precious Gift Of Language! | |
| Edna | March 6, 2007 |
| Hi! I visit your site quite often and I always find it so interesting, I took a cree course when i went to College but found it to be hard, because I had to keep my other grades which I need to get into a different course. I am so glad that you have it on your site - I want my daughters and others to be able to keep some of our tradions up. I thank you from the bottom of my heart and my prayers will be with you and your site - keep up the good work. You all have a good day and a super week! | |
| Gelene Chastellaine | January 26, 2007 |
| Hi there, I just had the opportunity to check out your site. WOW... I think it is great. I have always wanted to learn cree my husband speaks it but I have never learned. I love the language though, maybe I can teach myself now. I also use the numbers in grade 1 to teach my students numbers 1-10 in cree and english. I will be sure to visit often. Great job!!!! | |
| Gail Farmin | November 16, 2006 |
| I really have enjoyed your site and think this is very helpful. I'm a plains cree and do not know my language and this is really helpful. I have someone here that is helping me to pronounce alot of it. I try and work on this at home in the evening and get help during the day at work. I can't seem to find the counting and the site where the two gentlemen are having the conversation together. | |
| Reply by Charlie Venne: | |
I appreciate your comments. Here is the numbers page: http://www.giftoflanguageandculture.ca/numbersfla.htm I hope you keep checking the site. We are currently in the process of transliterating the TH dialect to both Y and N dialects. |
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| Valerie Wood-(Dene speaker) Alberta | October 13, 2006 |
| I have been viewing your site over the past couple of days and I am extremely happy to find a site with such quality work! I think you are fortunate to have such a large team to work collaboratively on this type of project. I am involved in language work and typically work alone because of lack of resources to employ others. I would be happy to hear more about your sources of funding. I am also eager to find out more about the resource kit on Greymornings ASLA. I have been using the method and have not had time to gather the pictures necessary, again due to lack of resources. I love the little 'talking' books! Keep up the good work! I am passing on the site info to others who are also working on language. | |
| Gerard Vandeberg - Montana, USA | April 18, 2006 |
| I teach down here at Stone Child College. I was searching on the Web for Cree stories to include in my little newsletter when I came upon your Web site. Your site is absolutely wonderful. Even though I am very hard of hearing, I could easily follow along with the the Cree audio, even the songs. Bear in mind the I know very little Cree. I have already passed along the URL to your web site to many others here at Stone Child College. I told them it will make their hearts feel good!. Please feel free to email me. By the way I am actually just the computer instructor but I also am on the Culture Committee and work with many Elders. | |
| Randy Morin - FSIN | April 10, 2006 |
| Tansi, I just wanted to say this website is a milestone in Cree progress and development. I just receive this website and was really impressed with it. Its about time someone or some people decided to do something about the language loss of Cree people. There should be more websites developed for this purpose in Sask and Canada. Hai Hai | |
| Judy Pamp - Michigan, USA | March 2, 2005 |
| I am from the Anishinabe tribe of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan. Our language is near extinction, and we are fighting to keep it from fading into history, plus revive it so that our youths start using it. I am very impressed by the vast amount materials created, the level of professionalism of your language and culture curriculum standards, plus your use of community members in this project. What a wonderful way to validate the importance of our community members' skills,values, and knowledge. I would like to gather more information to see about doing a project for our community. We are down to less than a handful of elders who are fluent. We have taught Ojibwa for over ten years in our private school-Saginaw Chippewa Academy without producing one speaker! They teach it like a special class. We realize it's time to change the way we are approaching the revitalization of our language. Time is running out for us. I work for the Ziibiwing Culture Center plus am a community member. Who would be a good contact person to seek out further guidance in developing our materials, curriculum, and archiving our language? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Miigwech, miinwa baamaapii Thank You and I will talk with you later. Judy |
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| Karen Middleton - Sasklearning | unknown |
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I would have forwarded this to your tech person, however I do not have his email address. I would appreciate it if you could forward this to the appropriate person. We are seeking permission to put a link to your website http://www.giftoflanguageandculture.ca on our Aboriginal languages Cree page http://www.sasklearning.gov.sk.ca/branches/partner_aboriginal/aboriginal_ed/abcree.shtml. I have looked through your website and really enjoyed it. There is only one piece that I noticed was missing, which is a "contact us" page or link. If someone has questions/comments regarding the website itself, or if they would like to get more information about the program, it would be extremely difficult to figure out who to contact. Karen Middleton - Administrative Assistant, Aboriginal Education Unit |
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| Reply by Charlie Venne: | |
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Minnie McKenzie send us your email and we appreciate your comments. We have placed a direct link to your page on our site: http://www.giftoflanguageandculture.ca/links.html We appreciate the link you placed on your site page, and we apologize for any inconvenience we may have placed on anybody trying to contact us. Web Developer, Curriculum Resource Unit (We have since renamed our "Comments" page to "Contact Us") |
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