Thursday, July 26, 2007

Heading North

I am in Toronto, and on my way to Montréal tomorrow morning on the VIA train. I am getting very excited about my trip to Inukjuaq in Nunavik, Arctic Québec. I will be meeting with members of the Avataq Cultural Center in Montréal who are helping to arrange my host family in Inukjuaq. I am nervous but excited.
I have just received notice that the Tusaalanga website is launched! This site is an absolutely fantastic reference for Inuktitut grammar and conversation. I have also heard that their team is working with Microsoft in developing Inuktitut localizations for software and hardware. These are exciting times for Inuktitut on the Internet!
My survey concerned with questions about current Inuktitut use on the Internet, and social networking in the Arctic, is in its final stages of development. I look forward to working on it further during the train ride tomorrow.
More to come-
Tim