Tag Archives: Languages

MOD #1 POST #5: Learning Bird

Learning Bird : https://learningbird.com/

Learning Bird is a company that works with schools and communities to build local Indigenous culture, language, and history into the classroom content through school resources, school programs, and language programs. Part of their services includes helping Indigenous communities digitalize their cultural artifacts and languages, provide teacher professional development opportunities, and develop curriculum. Their platform includes an LMS to support distance and differentiated learners and a bank of multi-modal resources to support teachers in their classrooms. However, this is a paid platform and requires a subscription to use their services.

MOD #1 POST #1: First Peoples’ Map of BC

Site: https://maps.fpcc.ca/

Information: https://fpcc.ca/stories/first-peoples-map/

The discussion on “Is technology culturally neutral?” brought up interesting dialogue on languages, especially those dominant in cyberspace. From that interaction, I found this resource which is a living map of the First Peoples’ languages in BC. Not only does it map the areas visually, but it also provides audio samples of the pronunciation of greetings, names, and more. Statistics about the communities and languages are included, such as the population and the number of fluent speakers. Along with languages, arts and cultural heritage points of interests are overlayed on the interactive map, providing a resource to learn more place-based information about First Peoples’ history in your community in BC.