Blog – Skins 5.0

Skins 5.0 Update – Two Weeks Left!

June 29, 2017 admin 0

Work on the new Skins curriculum is moving ahead at a wonderful pace! As much of the material used for previous workshops, such as software, […]

Update on Skins 5.0!

June 7, 2017 admin 0

There are only five weeks remaining until the Skins team heads to Hawaii and the lab is positively bustling! Starting today and for the next […]

Skins 5.0 / He Au Hou : Telling Moʻolelo Through Video Games

May 1, 2017 admin 0

Hawaiians have long embraced new technologies to tell our moʻolelo. When we began our move towards widespread alphabetic literacy in the 1820s, the wooden Ramage […]

Hello World!

April 26, 2017 admin 0

Skins 5.0 will be starting on July 17th at Kanaeokana in Honolulu, Hawaii.

E kūmaumaua kākou a hoʻomohala ʻia a hoʻoikaika ʻia hoʻi he ʻōnaehana hoʻonaʻauao ʻōiwi i mea e hoʻoikaika ai i ka lāhui. ʻO kā kākou ʻōlelo a me ko kākou ʻike ka ʻāina e ulu ai nei ʻōnaehana. A ʻo ua ʻōnaehana nei, he ʻanoʻano ia e kupu ai a kawowo a lau a muʻo a ʻao a liko a pua nā ulu koa hou o kēia mua aku e alakaʻi ana ma ia mea koʻikoʻi ʻo ke aloha ʻāina.
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Kanaeokana’s mission is to collaboratively develop and strengthen a Native Hawaiian education system—built on a strong ʻōlelo Hawai‘i and ʻike Hawai‘i foundation—to strengthen the lāhui and grow the next generations of aloha ‘āina leaders.

Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace is a research network whose goal is to ensure Indigenous presence in online environments, video games, and virtual worlds. Co-founded by Skawennati and Jason Edward Lewis, AbTeC launched IIF in 2015 in partnership with Concordia University, Kahnawake Education Centre, Kanien’keháka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center, Kontinónhstats Mohawk Language Custodians Association, Dechinta Bush University Centre for Research and Learning, ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Festival, MacKenzie Gallery, Behaviour Interactive, University of British Columbia Okanagan’s Centre for Indigenous Media Arts, and Western Arctic Moving Pictures.