{"id":259,"date":"2009-09-21T20:14:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T04:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/?p=259"},"modified":"2009-09-30T19:52:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T03:52:07","slug":"module-1-weblog-5-a-davidson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/2009\/09\/21\/module-1-weblog-5-a-davidson\/","title":{"rendered":"Module 1, Weblog #5 (A. Davidson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: x-large\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana;color: #cc3300;font-size: medium\"><strong><em>RedWAY BC News E-zine <\/em><\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Description and Relevance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In my ongoing search for a research topic I came across this site which was linked to the one Sophie posted on First Nations Pedagogy. The purpose of the site is stated in the heading byline:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana;color: #330099;font-size: x-small\"><strong>Harnessing Technology to Honour, Inform and Connect Urban Aboriginal Youth to Services, Opportunities, the Community and Each Other<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once again I found this to be intriguing considering the points of view we explored in Module 1 that questioned the value of participating in the online world from a cultural perspective for First Nations Communities.<\/p>\n<p>The main goal of the site seems to be focused on empowerment for urban aboriginals through employment potential, leadership, community building, advocacy groups, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Features and Links<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some of the areas of interest I navigated to from the home page included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imakenews.com\/spiritlink\/e_article001410002.cfm?x=b11,0,w\" target=\"_blank\">profiles of success<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvuas.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metro Vancouver Urban Aboriginal Strategy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UVHgvURX_vM[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RedWAY BC News E-zine Description and Relevance In my ongoing search for a research topic I came across this site which was linked to the one Sophie posted on First Nations Pedagogy. The purpose of the site is stated in the heading byline: Harnessing Technology to Honour, Inform and Connect Urban Aboriginal Youth to Services, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":934,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[5453,5464,112],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-1","tag-aboriginal-achievement","tag-empowerment","tag-first-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","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\/934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}