 Oh, I started two winters ago, so it would have been, we're in 2019, last winter it was ongoing, 2018, so the winter or the late fall of 2017. Well the first set of interviewing that happened, there was approximately 10 to 12 in this region. That was shared with my cohort at the time and since that time going from this past year span I would have had six people interviewed. Well I think that the biggest thing was being able to highlight for myself information I didn't know about my own community. I didn't realize that our Aboriginal Head Start program was the only accredited one for a full day program in, I believe, Canada due to their certification. I didn't realize that we had that in our community. I didn't realize that our on-campus friendship centre was the only one in Canada with that partnership. So just realizing the uniqueness of some of the things that are happening in Northwestern Alberta really was important for me because it helps me in my work on the other side of my life because I'm very involved in community work and volunteerism and that whole world. So getting to talk to people and share information with them about what's available with the online information centre. I think that I felt very happy to be able to approach people that I know and respect because we are a fairly small community with this piece of information that they may not have known about being the National Collaboration Centre and providing the opportunity for their voice to be represented. That made me feel very, very happy to be able to make those connections because quite often Northwestern Alberta, specifically the Grand Prairie Urban Area, is underrepresented or completely missed over in a lot of things that happened. So that was something very valuable to me and to the people that I was able to present the tool, because it is a tool too, that people were very appreciative of the possibility of connecting with people across Canada and seeing other videos about what works and other people's experiences. People were quite excited about that. I do think that the potential for connections was a very valuable part because they're instantaneous. People can go and look right away and find something in a content area that they're curious about and you know how the internet works. One thing leads to another and you can really keep going and so it provides very relevant tools and moving forward, my vision would be to see this continue with the online site, those virtual connections being made between people. I would also like to see, I see a people component, the people getting more involved where the rubber hits the road and people making connections right in their own communities or province to collaborate as groups and move forward with their ideas in person. Because to me, if something's only virtual and it's all online, then my auntie, in her words, she said it can't have spirit, it needs the people to have spirit. That's right. I try to remember that whenever I'm doing any type of a research or anything to do that has a lot of reading that we have to remember the people side of things and make sure that at the end of the day everything goes back down to people physically connecting. So moving forward, I guess my vision would be that some tools are put in place that help people actually connect in, I don't know, sharing forms or I don't know what that looks like but I think that would be great. I think this is a very interesting process around storytelling but on a national level there's many layers here and this is a story that's being told with super amount of chapters but really it's a story of what people have created in their own communities that are considered best practices by their own people and I think that story is a new story. We don't often hear it that way. We often get these books from the government that say best practices. Here, phone this number. But this is a visual story, an auditory story that people can engage in and relate to their own realities and decide if they want to go down that path and learn a little more and so I see it as a form of storytelling and I think it's a great tool. We have to embrace the digital age that we're all in and I think it's fantastic. I see it as a networking piece moving forward. I think it would be really neat if they incorporated a chat function where people can chat in real time together like a messenger function. It's not the people part but at least it's people connecting their ideas instantly like a real conversation. Lots of times we think about something like oh yeah I should ask about that and then we forget and if we had that functionality technology wise to say hey person in Nova Scotia Head Start program to ask their opinion on something or ask for a resource and to get an instant response for people that are online that would be great. Absolutely because we're in Cree territory most of our resources are Cree. It would be very interesting to have outside resources because we do have other people asking in this area specifically for something that we don't have readily. I think that there are numerous levels of knowledge holders you know and it would create pathways to help facilitate getting to the right person in terms of what it is you need to know and if it's something that can be talked about online or read about it'll be there. If it's something that needs to be in person protocol then that would be laid out as well. It would be an avenue for that stopping point by people who do have the ability to say no that cannot be discussed here right now. However you could approach such and such with protocol and talk to them in person and it would be people directing that flow and protecting I guess as you say also. I think that the information gathered on a national level if all of it is coded and all of the themes and the sub themes everything is laid out as to what is being said where what's important all of these pieces. I think that's a very valuable tool that can be shared within the curriculum. In Alberta anyway we have teacher quality standards in the curriculum that need to be implemented very soon and a lot of schools are not floundering that's not the right word. Are unsure of what are appropriate resources and approaches and I think that some of the information that's been collected with this project would be a great place for them to draw upon and create their own discussions regionally. I think when when I was I did my own little area of research here and I kind of did my own coding for my own purposes to report and you know there are five main themes that came out of all the interviews that I conducted that were important to the people here in their perspective and it had to be anything to do with teaching had to be regional specific language was fundamental appropriate knowledge keepers being used there was numerous things and all all things being taught needed to be experiential touch taste feel type stuff considered so that was in our region what the people were saying collectively it would be interesting to see what I'm sure it would be very similar in Saskatchewan or Manitoba I think if people were removed from the process and it just stayed as an online vehicle that could happen but I think that the interviews and the people were very cautious about the content that was put online and so that type of information is protected and not there however people could go online and take have their own takeaways and go and create their own thing out of it that could happen but I'm not I'm not really too sure and it's hopefully up to the rest of the communities and professionals to see that what it's happening and to not support it and to ostracize or isolate those people that are involved in that out of the process hopefully you know out of everybody's learning and goodwill people would educate themselves enough to know what is appropriation and hopefully that's a piece of what can happen with this I think that I would take it to the voices of the children I would I would include the children's perspective in a very less formal manner of course but to capture I guess different age groups what their understanding is of some basic concepts that we're all hoping are instilled in our communities and nation just to see where kids are at with that what their opinion is today it would be very interesting to hear what they perceive now and what they want to know and to me I just think it would be we're always amazed at what children have to say because they speak with such truth and they sense they sense when things are not right in a sense when their energies are strange or they feel uncomfortable in a certain situation they might use children's words but they can be very clear about what what they're trying to say yeah I think that would be very interesting because you know we often focus on the elders and the professionals and these groups which are important but the kids to have a voice would be an interesting perspective I think if they took the time to go through the site and look at the regional I guess that breakdown would need to happen as to what's happening in their province but I think the tool yes actually I do think it will help educators because there's a lot of people out there that are wanting to know things and they don't know where to start and so if this is able to provide connections for people to even just go to a website or phone somebody that's a starting point that they didn't have before in a very specific area I think so maybe regional contact people who can help facilitate something um but I do think personal personnel or people need to be included I do I don't know what that looks like but I really do think it has to always be in place