Blog – Skins 5.0

Skins 5.0 Update – Two Weeks Left!

June 29, 2017 admin

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

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

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

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.