My subject is on the topic of cultural understanding and acceptance. The focus will be on Rotary Youth Exchange students in the Fairbanks area. The video will consist of interviews from past exchange students, recently back all the way to adults now 20 years+ out, current students here from other countries, and future students who…
I propose to do a story on the bike rental program UAF Green Bikes. Last semester I spoke to a few of the people who run the program for a previous assignment. While I came in to only ask a few questions, I ended up staying for much longer to learn more about their program.…
Fairbanks is about three hundred miles away from the next actual city, (Anchorage). After listening to everybody talk about how living in the city of Fairbanks is, and what it means to be an Alaskan, I realized how different it is from other parts of the state. It’s almost as if this single big…
Many people all over Alaska have gone to boarding schools, and those schools impacted their lives differently than say a public school would. My story proposal would be a collection of stories about peoples experiences with boarding schools, whether its from back in the 60s to the present day. Education in alaska has evolved and…
My proposal is to take a look at lifestyles in Fairbanks, particularly Fairbanks dry cabins. Many people spend summers in dry cabins, I did when I grew up. I think it would be good to see why many Alaskans choose to live in cabins out in the wilderness, and why there are many cabins for…
Zombie Fairbanks: What would you do if Fairbanks was a zombie mecca? Where would you live? How would you survive? How would you save humanity? For this digital storytelling, I hope to create a story that illustrates how one would survive a zombie apocalypse in Fairbanks, Alaska. This will be achieved by looking at…
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…
What stories do YOU want to tell? The first step in our digital storytelling process is to identify the stories that we would like to tell. Remember, these are stories about Fairbanks for a Fairbanks audience. You may work choose to work with an organization or initiative and help tell their story. You may choose…