{"id":844,"date":"2009-10-18T21:03:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T05:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/?p=844"},"modified":"2010-11-27T13:34:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T21:34:20","slug":"aboriginal-culture-in-the-digital-age-m2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/2009\/10\/18\/aboriginal-culture-in-the-digital-age-m2-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Aboriginal Culture in the Digital Age (M2-5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would share this interesting research article discussing Aboriginal Culture in Canada involving digital technologies.  The article, written by the Aboriginal Voice Culture Group, explores the future of .  This group endeavours to explore the relationship and impact of information and communications technologies on Aboriginal cultures and identity in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The document directly relates to many of the topics we have discussed this week including:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is ICT the potent enabler for the promotion, renewal and enrichment of Aboriginal cultures as many claim?\u00a0 For example does ICT offer new possibilities for the preservation and teaching of Aboriginal languages?\u00a0 Within the context of increasing numbers of Aboriginal peoples living away from traditional communities in large urban melting pots, can technology help safeguard the right of Aboriginal children and young people to learn their culture and speak their Indigenous languages?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article is a great read and discusses many of the websites playing a role in helping Canadian Aboriginals to shape their online identity.\u00a0 Here are some of the sites the article mentions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metisradio.fm\">M\u00e9tisradio.fm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sccyber.net\/www\/index.php\">Sunchild eLearning Community<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metismuseum.ca\/\">M\u00e9tis Museum of Canada<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginenative.org\/\">ImagiNATIVE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would share this interesting research article discussing Aboriginal Culture in Canada involving digital technologies. The article, written by the Aboriginal Voice Culture Group, explores the future of . This group endeavours to explore the relationship and impact of information and communications technologies on Aboriginal cultures and identity in Canada. The document directly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[127797,5634,5460,112,5449,1428,6347],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-2","tag-127797","tag-aboriginal-media","tag-cultural-survival","tag-first-nations","tag-first-nations-education","tag-heritage","tag-mlacoursiere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","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\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}