After completing nearly three months of Peace Corps training in 1971, I was assigned to Kumba, then a city of 48,000 surrounded by plantain, oil palm, rubber and cocoa farms and relatively dense forests. I drew the short straw because all my fellow Volunteers were assigned more scenic and cooler climates.…
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Loading...In 1971 left rural Orange City IA (then about 3500 residents) for even more rural Cameroon to become a Peace Corps Volunteer. Our training was conducted in the beautiful highlands in the north of West Cameroon, which at the time still had its own Parliament in Buea.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...ZooBurst is an easy tool for communicating key ideas quickly. The pop-up feature perhaps appeals to younger audiences most, but it should hold the attention of older audiences as well if the story is not too long. I am grateful to etMOOC for having motivated me to experiment with a wide variety digital storytelling tools.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I am grateful to Wesley Fryer for his post that introduced me to Narrable. It took me much longer than I had anticipated to create my short Narrable reflection about how my roots on an Iowa farm were easily transferred to a career living and working in sub-Saharan Africa.…
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