Module #1-Blog #4

The “Project of the Heart” website is a collaborative education journey of discovery and inquiry that provides education on the legacy of residential schools across Canada. Furthermore, this website provides a mechanism to collectively change historical understanding through a discourse on social injustice past and present. What amazed me in an examination of this site is the oral and visual records of shared experiences of the trauma of residential schools, and the will and determination for healing through sharing. The three main focuses of “Project of the Heart” are: Examine the history and legacy of Indian Residential Schools in Canada and to seek the truth about that history, leading to the acknowledgement of the extent of loss to former students, their families and communities

• Commemorate the lives of the thousands of Indigenous children who died as a result of the residential school experience.
• Call Canadians to action, through social justice endeavors, to change our present and future history collectively

This website blends in nicely with my theme of education and the use of interactive technology in First Nations studies, as mechanism of interaction through community involvement and shared experience. This website provides an insight into how interactive technology can be used to share experiences across Canada.

Website: Project of the Heart. http://www.projectofheart.ca/