Story Proposal on Medical Emergencies

Story Proposal My story proposal is to do one on rural ambulance crew/fire departments that’s closest hospital is in Fairbanks. Some places are two hours or more away from the nearest hospital. This can be a problem for critical patience. For the story I was thinking on focusing on the medic’s experiences of having to…

My Questions to Our Guest Speakers

Questions for the Guest Speakers Danny (Calypso Farm)- What did the creators envision for the Calypso Farm when it was first made and did they succeed with that vision? Jason Avery (Fairbanks Parks and Recreation)- How does the program get the funding for developing and maintaining parks in the Fairbanks Borough? Walkie Charles (Alaska Native…

Digital Story Telling

Digital Story Telling Digital story telling is using technology like a computer to tell a story through being things like video, audio or graphics. In the article What is Digital Storytelling? explains it as, ‘usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips, and/or music’. It is a way to add…

Electronic Literature in Wiki

Part 1 Create: The Reader and the Writer of Electronic Literature Electronic literature opened up a whole new way of reading. It puts literature into a digital form, allowing the writer to add things that the reader can interact with as they read. This genre of literature is meant to be read on an electronic…

Can There Be Game Without Play

Can There Be Game Without Play   How does one define play or game? David Golumbia says that play is what we do when using a game. When I sit down and use a game, I consider myself as playing that game. Golumbia believes that the words game and play are being misunderstood. In the…

Pry into the Mind of a Soldier

Pry is an interactive novella app made by Danny Cannizzaro and Samantha Gorman. The novella app allows the readers to pry open or pinch close to get more out of the story. It is about a man named James who was in the Gulf War stationed in I believe Dharan, and is now a veteran…

“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…