After taking notes and transcribing interviews, the students create newspaper stories dealing with their subjects. These stories, along with pictures, are posted to an online newspaper called The Old Omaha Exchange. Students also use Apple I-Movie software to edit the interviews and post these clips online as well. Another major goal of the project is to preserve the memories of our original sources of Omaha. All of the people interviewed are elderly people of the community.
Students try to capture the early history of Omaha through their eyes before it is too late.
At the same time, students and citizens of Omaha learn tolerance for each other. Finally, the project is a collaboration class involving regular education and special education students. It is a team-taught class that tries to further the idea of getting along with other people, regardless of their abilities.