{"id":239,"date":"2009-09-21T12:34:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T20:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/?p=239"},"modified":"2009-09-21T12:34:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T20:34:44","slug":"module-1-weblog-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/2009\/09\/21\/module-1-weblog-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Module 1 Weblog #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>The Pathways Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was looking for sites which deal with the importance of oral traditions in indigenous communities, when I came across this site which compares oral traditions (OT) with Internet technology (IT). This site reinforced an idea I had about using technology for languages which have never been written down. I was fascinated by the concept that \u201cBecause of their inherent dynamics, both OT and IT are always in flux; they remain open, emergent, and forever under construction rather than closed, determined, and complete.\u201d(p.1)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At first I found myself trying to read the information in my traditional linear style, but this site really encourages you to step away from the traditional and to wander around the site following whichever threads of the conversation interest you. I spent some time in the Museum of Verbal Art and from there I sidetracked to the Ideology of the Text.\u00a0 I ended up a long way from my original search, but it was worth it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pathwaysproject.org\/pathways\/show\/HomePage\">http:\/\/www.pathwaysproject.org\/pathways\/show\/HomePage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pathways Project \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was looking for sites which deal with the importance of oral traditions in indigenous communities, when I came across this site which compares oral traditions (OT) with Internet technology (IT). This site reinforced an idea I had about using technology for languages which have never been written down. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}