The Year Ahead: Our Move into Spatial Storytelling
Building the Gore Mountain Story Cloud will be a major focus for the First Wilderness Story Collaboration in 2023.
The First Wilderness Story Collaboration begins its second year with a $26,000 budget and the ability to pay students, providing what for most will be their first professional work experience, their first step in building a professional resume.
Our goal is to demonstrate the value of a new form of civic journalism that's rooted in collaboration and driven by students for academic credit.
We need student writers and designers to drive our most expansive title, How Skiing Came to North Creek, to launch in January.
We need “spatial storytellers” to assist in building the Gore Mountain Story Cloud, the app that will enable visitors to listen to “How Skiing Came to North Creek” as they drive and walk around. Storytelling will be triggered by GPS markers.
We need a designer to work with Sidekick Creative in developing a printed map of the Gore Mountain Region.
We need a student with a keen interest in history and art to develop Ancient Windows of the Earth as a traveling exhibition.
We pay stipends of $15 per hour and up to $2,000 for major flat-fee assignments. We thank the Warren County Occupancy Tax Committee and the Department of Planning and Community Development for making these stipends possible.
Here's one example of the opportunities we're offering: Allison Comstock, a junior history education major at Plattsburgh State and an intern at the North Star Underground Railroad Museum in Chesterfield, is producing our Story Map on the Underground Railroad in Warren County. We'll publish her interviews in the Collaborative History section of Stories from Open Space along the way.
We seek more students like Allison, self-starters who find appealing the prospect of joining an online community of experts and editors to tell great stories in support of heritage tourism. You'll get bylines, a work portfolio, and recommendations in LinkedIn. We'll give you the best start toward a career in journalism, public relations, or digital media that we can.
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