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Members of the Hul’q’umi’num’ Treaty group and researchers from the University of Victoria and University of British Columbia have been experimenting with the Digital Video Disc (DVD) medium to document, communicate and revitalize the Hul’q’umi’num’ language. This project has employed Participatory Video techniques to record important cultural practices, including Bighouse speaking and cedar-bark weaving. The DVD medium was chosen because it enabled community members to access language-related information using high levels of user-interactivity in their own homes and without reliance on costly broadband Internet access. The DVDs include language drills, word exercises and user-determined material. They can therefore become a flexible and robust training tool that will contribute to the revitalization of Hul’q’umi’num’ language.
Recently it was proposed to produce similar video materials in a Web 2.0 format so that they could be distributed to a wider Hul’q’umi’num’ youth audience that are already accessing and using these social-computing technologies. In particular it was hoped to develop a blog based mash-up that would combine video based language revitalization materials housed on YouTube with text and dictionary-based materials in text form. Elders expressed serious concerns over sharing the information in this way.
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