Digital Literacy and Media Production - Making of "Indigital Warriors"

Location

The Digital Literacy and Media production training main goal is to provide digital literacy and media production training to Doig River First Nation youth to develop their workplace skills in this new digital era. The training will introduce technology tools to the Doig River youth so that they can develop skills in translating important cultural information using multimedia. The goal is to improve communication to motivate and generate action. The students will gain skills in new media technology.

Objectives

To provide youth skills to navigate media while learning technology skills and linking these learning to cultural media production skills for development of Saya –a hero's journey TV series production. This cultural information will be developed using video, photography, audio recording, language and text.

The participants will learn and gain transferable literacy skills that will provide a means to synthesize and disseminate information. They will be involved in acquisition of cultural knowledge and ability to translate short stories through various media about the business activity in the region's economy.

The Challenge: Doig River First Nation Community has limited cultural relevant information in the emerging knowledge based economy to address:

• A learning divide, low relative access to and completion of education/training;
• Insignificant access to culturally relevant education and training programs
• Dated culturally relevant teaching methodologies on workplace culture

The Solution: Provide innovative education/skills training and employment opportunities to Aboriginal people Northeast British Columbia.

• Build on Traditional knowledge assets and innovation of local people to meet their own cultural business challenges. Build a Tve series about Saya - a heroes journey journey.
• Build entrepreneurial competency in the Digital platform. Website: Dane wajich.tv
• Provide technology communication solution for Doig River First Nation Administration.

Students will be introduced to technology Training in hyper local technology application. Student will be provided I-Phones for mobile web applications and play out system. The training will focus on connectivity and social media skills such as mobile technology, You Tube, iPhone, internet, workplace and classroom situations-
The Doig River Digital project will create a working interactive and monetized website that allows for First Nation communities to create, upload, curate, access, and interact with cultural materials in digital formats. Cultural content will include current work that is created in digital format or recorded digitally, plus digital archives of traditional cultural materials. Digital content will include video, music, chanting, spoken word, dance, visual imagery and combinations of the above.

Like many Aboriginal communities Doig River is experiencing rapid advancements in their technical infrastructure which now both allows for, and requires, the transliteration of cultural activities and traditional cultural archives into digital media formats.

To meet this challenge and to allow for band youth and others to take advantage of the employment and business opportunities that their community’s expanding digital capacity offers, there are a number of significant digital media training initiatives being undertaken in Doig River.

These training programs are to provide digital literacy and digital media production training to community members in media technology application. Activities will include solving real time business communication within Aboriginal organizations and businesses. Community members will also be trained to disseminate information through digital media and learn to apply their learning’s to pre-production material development for community’s communication strategies and economic development.

The objective is to train members of the community to develop and translate information suitable to groups within the community. The methods of delivery will be through multimedia arts and design; video; animation; photographs; archive materials; art; music; traditional language; print; and oral storytelling.