Module 3 Weblog 1

I began by searching for an indigenous website about the use of technology, as most of the sites I have found dealt only with the benefits of educators and governments points of view. I found this website (http://www.nativetech.org/) and to be honest I was discouraged as it seemed to be a commercial site. I was checking out its links when I came across the http://nativeweb.org/ which seems to be the mother site. I was impressed with the quality of the links especially (http://www.mns-firstnet.ca/) I got sidetracked from my research and in fact the information and video about the residential schools horrified me (http://www.mns-firstnet.ca/). I remember children being strapped, when I was about 7 years old, in my primary school and the terror it would cause us as we heard it happening. Our parents would always tell us they probably deserved it, but I never agreed and vowed that when I was a teacher no student would ever have reason to fear me.