{"id":1147,"date":"2010-11-29T22:13:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T06:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2010-11-29T22:13:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T06:13:57","slug":"learn-cherokee-on-an-ipod-and-other-language-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/2010\/11\/29\/learn-cherokee-on-an-ipod-and-other-language-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn Cherokee on an iPod, and other language sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is incredibly forward thinking to create an app to learn Cherokee, available in the Apple store for only $9.99.\u00a0 Kids (and adults) are connected to their cell phones, so why not give them an app that allows them to learn on the go.\u00a0\u00a0 Soon to be available for the Nintendo DSi.\u00a0 I would love to know how many people have purchased it to date.\u00a0 It is rated 4+ on iTunes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndnlanguage.com\/Cherokee_products.html\">http:\/\/www.ndnlanguage.com\/Cherokee_products.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the technology and language thread, Language Geek is in business to promote tools for the promotion of indigenous languages.\u00a0 They have over 170 keyboards for Mac and Windows that cover many language families.\u00a0 An interesting note is that a large barrier to writing authentic works in Native languages is the lack of an easy way to type it. Language Geek has solved this issue with their custom products.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.languagegeek.com\/\">http:\/\/www.languagegeek.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech Soup is another site that I had not heard of until I started research on my paper.\u00a0 This organization connects non-profits, charities and libraries with hardware and software donations, subject to an admin fee.\u00a0 Microsoft, Cisco, Intuit, Flickr and others are offering their products for next to nothing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsoupcanada.ca\/\">http:\/\/www.techsoupcanada.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is incredibly forward thinking to create an app to learn Cherokee, available in the Apple store for only $9.99.\u00a0 Kids (and adults) are connected to their cell phones, so why not give them an app that allows them to learn on the go.\u00a0\u00a0 Soon to be available for the Nintendo DSi.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4025,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[568,48892],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-4","tag-language","tag-parkyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}