Digital Drum
Sep 21st, 2008 by Steffanie Reid
Website: www.digitaldrum.ca
This website was designed as an area to engage aboriginal youth in their culture and increase their awareness of each other. One of the aims of the site designers was to help “…youth have a sense of citizenship and pride in their Aboriginal heritage – both online and in the real-world”
This is a bilingual site that provides the opportunity to blog about issues important to aboriginal youth, to post artistic projects they may have developed (i.e. videos or songs), and links to information regarding aboriginal heritage. The site even includes educational resources for educators (mostly in English, although they hope to add more French content) that they can use to help teach their students about the Indigenous cultures of Canada. This is a great site for hearing stories in the peoples own words, as videos of Elders telling stories have been uploaded.