Communication in Inuit Communities

This is a video that we have prepared explaining our methods of communication in Inuit camps of the past and now in our village. There are a couple interesting things that we forgot to mention in our video. We have an FM radio station. Often when people are looking for someone in the village they will announce on the FM for them to call somewhere specific. It is used in a much different way than in the south. When people go out on the land camping, fishing, or hunting they often use satellite telephones, they are similar to a cell phone but much more expensive. Satellite phones are usually only used in emergencies. Also, in the days of tents and igloos people would tap on the centre pole in a tent using Morse code to communicate with a neighbouring tent. 

Sports in Quaqtaq

This is a video that our class made about Inuit sports in the past and present. It is a response to a post by some of Ms. Catchpaw's students titled Basketball. We all worked very hard on this video, writing the script, taking the pictures, and of course recording our voices. We hope that you enjoy our video!

Food Choices in Quaqtaq

This is our response to a voicethread titled Fast Food Restaurants by a couple of Ms. Catchpaw's Grade 6 students. We hope you enjoy our video. This video talks about our food choices here in Quaqtaq. You may need to adjust your volume at times. Thank you and enjoy!

A very exciting day!

Today we watched the first voicethread created by some of the students from Drummondville school. We really enjoyed it and immediately started planning our response. After we began planning we were pleasently surprised to recieve a package from Ms. Catchpaw's Grade 6 class. We spent our whole reading period opening and reading their letters. 

It was so much fun! We even tried some of the sparkling juice that was included in our package. Tomorrow we may try some of the maple products. The students in my class were very impressed at all the wonderful things that we recieved in the package. They have decided to prepare a package to send back with some items that represent our life here in Quaqtaq.

In the afternoon we went for a walk to take some pictures to use for our post. It was a beautiful and sunny day, it was a very good excuse to go outside. Tomorrow we will be viewing the new posts by our partner class and we will work on creating our own voicethread with the pictures and information we put together today.

We are a class of Grade 6,7 students. There are 8 students in our class, 4 boys and 4 girls. We live in a small Inuit village with approximately 300 people. Our school, Isummasaqvik School,  includes students from kindergarten to Secondary 5, there are 109 students and around 20 staff members.

We have created this blog page to communicate with another class from the south. We are very excited! We can't wait to know more about students that are the same age as us but live in a different area and have a different culture. We hope that everyone enjoys our new blog.