“You Can’t Win Them All” Review

You Can’t Win Them All   I have been in EMS and firefighting since I was 15 or 16 years old. Through the years I have gone from an Emergency Trauma Technician (ETT) to an Emergency Medical Technician 2 (EMT 2)/Firefighter 1, working towards an EMT 3. I have been on countless ambulance calls and…

Three Life Choices: Keisha

Three Life Choices: Deciding which route to take. The ability for me to choose how to live my life has never really been my decision. For as long as I can remember, my parents were the main source of the outcomes of my life today. My parents are the stereotypical strict asian parents and I…

Contemplating and Creating My Story

While there are many aspects of writing that I find challenging, I found that for this assignment it was the details of my story that made it difficult. I honestly spent so much time trying to come up with a solid story with strong characters and plot. When it comes to imagining stories, I think…

Culture Shock

For this first writing assignment I chose to write about my life when I was living in Germany. I had lived there for about three years and I thought the different aspects of culture, language, and food was a great way to make the story interesting. Anyhow, what really drove me in this writing assignment…

A Review of “My Best Friend”

“My Best Friend” https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/fdbaudllueu1ux8ukfvqdq/my-best-friend So for my reflection portion of the writing assignment I plan on talking about the  CHOICE  I made as a writer in what I as a writing about. At first when I had started the assignment I had started with a totally different story. It was a lot darker and visually…

Review of “Alaskan Adventures”

My story was a combination of two hunting experiences I went on when I was a teenager with my dad. One was on Kodiak and one was in Cantwell.  I used these because they were interesting and told a story of my background and who I am. Also because they are unique and not a…

How to Post to Our Blog

You will receive an email from Community@UAF that tells you to activate your account. Follow the instructions and log-in to the website. You should be able to log-in using your UAF credentials, but if that doesn’t work use the “User” name that is in the subject of the Activate email. For most of you, this…

Micro-writing 1: Your own story

For our first micro-writing assignment, I’d like you to create your own digital story. Consider the stories we have read so far in this class, as well as the theorists we’ve used to think about the process and goals  of story-making. What is the idea that you would like to communicate through a digital narrative?…

This is our blog …

Each of you will become “Authors” on this blog. “Author” is the technical title. We will all be creators and collaborators on/of this blog. Many of your written assignments will be posted here, and we will regularly work on the blog together in class. As you compose for our blog, consider:    Who is your…