John Hodgins

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I have been the Technical Director for IsumaTV since our launch in 2008. I've managed the growth of the site from a simple video blog to an interactive social networking and OTT VOD platform, as well as acting as lead developer for a variety of Isuma's digital projects. I've travelled extensively in the Canadian Arctic managing installation of IsumaTV MediaPlayers in Igloolik, Pangnirtuq and Iqaluit. More recently, I developed the technology and helped launch Uvagut TV, Canada's first national Inuktut television channel.See more

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  • Gjoa Haven | Uqsuqtuuq | ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ

    uploaded by: GjoaHaven

    Gjoa Haven is a Low Bandwidth High Cost internet community. Internet service is 150 times behind southern Canada in cost-per-MB. To overcome this handicap NITV installs local server Mediaplayers to deliver high speed media to slow speed users, and broadcasts our internet films and videos to home TV.

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    uploaded date: 07-03-2016

  • Old Massett

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    The Haida community page is dedicated to telling stories from the Haida perspective. Working in the communities of Skidegate and Old Massett, this page was possible through the Haida Script Development Project, a collaboration between the Council of the Haida Nation, the UBC School of Regional and Community Planning, and NITV (Nunavut Independent Television Network).

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    uploaded date: 08-09-2016

  • Welcome to IsumaTV!

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Home

    Welcome, you can now begin to upload to IsumaTV!

    Create as many channels as you like for your media, follow other people’s channels and join community hubs.

    Use your floating control panel on the right to upload, create new channels, and edit your profile or to logout.

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    uploaded date: 06-04-2015

  • Tuttujaq

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Kingulliit

     «TUTTUJAQ»(1971)
    Film 16 mm couleur (muet)
    Réalisé et tourné par
    Bernard Saladin d’Anglure,
    chargé de recherche au CNRS (Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale)
    et professeur invité au département d’anthropologie
    Université Laval

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    uploaded date: 20-01-2015

  • Video on Demand

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Home

    IsumaTV automatically re-compresses every uploaded video to five different versions for Streaming (i.e. view-only) depending on the different internet capacities of viewers:

    1. High HD (1080) and Low HD (720) deliver highest quality Streaming to viewers with fast internet bandwidth;

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    uploaded date: 09-01-2015

  • Projects and Consulting Work

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Home

    At IsumaTV we have put together a group of experts in media, law and other areas part of indigenous people’s lives. Over the years we have developed projects like DID, ARTCO, DIAMA, gathering knowledge and experience we can share with other people and interested media organizations.

    About these projects and consulting services:

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    uploaded date: 09-01-2015

  • Multimedia Sharing and Custom Designed Channels

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Home

    IsumaTV carries over 5000 videos, and thousands of other images and audio files, in more than 70 different languages, on 800+ user-controlled channels, representing indigenous cultures and media organizations from Canada, U.S.A., Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and all over Latin America.

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    uploaded date: 09-01-2015

  • IsumaTV Mediaplayer Distribution Network

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Home

    By installing IsumaTV Mediaplayers in remote communities, IsumaTV has created an independent distribution network, allowing isolated communities in the world to interact at high-speed with other people worldwide, by contributing their own media content, and having access to the existing media on IsumaTV.

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    uploaded date: 09-01-2015

  • Test text post

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Kingulliit

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut commodo augue ligula, quis mollis dui mollis vitae. Nam ac velit nec orci pulvinar lobortis. Phasellus nulla neque, aliquet vitae sagittis eget, auctor eu eros.… Read more

    uploaded date: 12-02-2014

  • 42m 42s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Inuvik - Renie Arey

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    On this episode of Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Inuvik host Dodie Malegana visits with Akłarvik Elder Renie Arey, discussing her family genealogy, surviving residential school while keeping her language and her time working as a translator keeping the language alive. This episode is in the Uummarmiutun dialect.

     

    First Broadacst Wednesday April 9, 2025

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    uploaded date: 04-04-2025

  • 1m 57s

    2025 Goose Watch Launch Video

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

    Goose Watch 2025 has begun!
    Indigenous communities across the North are working together to help track this year’s goose migration using SIKU - you could win a $1000 gift card, sponsored by Northern! Learn more at https://siku.org/goosewatch

    Stay safe and good hunting!

    Language
    English narration with English captions

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    uploaded date: 04-04-2025

  • 56m 27s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat - Billy Kuksuk

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    On this episode of Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat A live performance from Billy Kuksuk, a guitarist and musician from Arviat who plays blues, ragtime, and gospel music in both Inuktitut and English. He has released an album and often performs with his wife, Sandra. Recently, he played at the Puvirnituq Snow Festival.

     

    First Broadcast Thursday April 4th, 2025

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    uploaded date: 03-04-2025

  • 1m 12s

    IW25 Weekly Winner 3

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

    Congratulations to Elena Angnatuk from Quaqtaq - the Week #3 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post documenting how to use an unaaq (harpoon) near their community.

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    uploaded date: 03-04-2025

  • 46m 29s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Inuvik- Judy Selamio

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    On this episode of Quyanaq Qaikaffi Pangma Nunaptingnun - Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Inuvik (Tea Time With Elders) Host Dodie Malegana and her guest Judy Selamio discuss her family genealogy and life growing up in Aklavik including her work as a radio host. This program is in the Uummarmiutun dialect.

    First Broadcast Wednesday April 2nd, 2025

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    uploaded date: 02-04-2025

  • 50m 51s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat - Billy Ukutak

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    On this episode of On this episode of Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat Connie Uyaupiq Kalluak sits down for a talk with Arviat Elder Billy Ukutak, a dedicated school counselor at Qitiqliq Middle School. Billy will give words of comforting advice for the Arviat community.

    First Broadcast, Tuesday April 1, 2025

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    uploaded date: 01-04-2025

  • 50m 30s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat - Bernadette Illungiayok

    uploaded by: Anonymous

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    On this episode of Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat : Tea Time With Elders - Host Connie Uyaupiq Kalluak sits down with Bernadette Illungiayok who will speak about and show items that she sews, she is an Inuk seamstress with knowledge in the traditional Inuit way of sewing clothing.

    First Broadcast Thursday March 27, 2025

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    uploaded date: 27-03-2025

  • 1m 12s

    Ice Watch 2025 Weekly Winner 2

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

     Congratulations to Willia Amaamatuak from Salluit - the Week #2 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post documenting sinaaq near their community.

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    uploaded date: 27-03-2025