Tuesday, September 16, 2008

First story

I've been thinking since Thursday about what I wanted to do for my first multimedia story. I generally put a lot of pressure on myself to come up with an idea thats out-of-this-world amazing. Unfortunately, when it doesn't work out that way, it's pretty disappointing. Anyone want to help me out with that one??
I used to be an Animal Science major with a concentration in Equine Sciences. I didn't have my horse Dovey here when I was a freshman and was pretty bummed that I wasn't riding, so for something to do I volunteered for the Therapeutic Riding program here. A lot of the kids were wicked fun. There were two girls that I usually worked with, I think one of them was Autistic and the other had ADHD. Generally, the riders in the program have cerebral palsy, stoke, MD, learning/developmental/emotional disabilities etc.
I haven't decided yet exactly how I'm going to approach this. Most likely I'll pick one student to profile and interview them, their parents, and possibly their instructors. Obviously I will take some videos and still-photos of them riding and the types of things they do around the barn. That's basically all I've got for right now, but I'll write more as it comes :-)

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