{"id":891,"date":"2009-10-19T20:54:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T04:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/?p=891"},"modified":"2009-10-19T20:54:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T04:54:30","slug":"first-perspective-national-aboriginal-news-m2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/2009\/10\/19\/first-perspective-national-aboriginal-news-m2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"First Perspective: National Aboriginal News (M2-3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstperspective.ca\/\">http:\/\/www.firstperspective.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First Perspective is a website devoted to Canada-wide aboriginal news issues.\u00a0 In addition to a listing of recent headlines affecting Aboriginal Canadians and Aboriginal issues world-wide, the site also offers a listing of news releases, employment opportunities, Aboriginal event listings, and links to regular Aboriginal journalistic columns such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underthenorthernsky.com\/\">Under the Northern Sky<\/a>.\u00a0 Several advertisements also are present on the page, all related to Aboriginal events and issues.<\/p>\n<p>One ad that caught my eye was a small one in the corner of the main page.\u00a0 There is a First Nations art image in black and red with a caption that reads, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstperspective.ca\/ads\/bc\/march09.pdf\">Learn More about B.C. Hydro Careers<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 Clicking on the image takes you to a pdf full page ad, targeting prospective aboriginal employees.<\/p>\n<p>I could not get a sense of how well-used this resource is, but it appears to be updated regularly and the news feed is current.\u00a0 This could be a great site to introduce students to, especially at the secondary level.\u00a0 First Perspective is a great example of the use of internet technology to connect aboriginal people in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.firstperspective.ca\/ First Perspective is a website devoted to Canada-wide aboriginal news issues.\u00a0 In addition to a listing of recent headlines affecting Aboriginal Canadians and Aboriginal issues world-wide, the site also offers a listing of news releases, employment opportunities, Aboriginal event listings, and links to regular Aboriginal journalistic columns such as Under the Northern Sky.\u00a0 Several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":900,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[5634,662],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-2","tag-aboriginal-media","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","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\/900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}