StoryMapJS – Part 3 – Sharing a StoryMap
Welcome to Part 3 of the StoryMapJS Tutorial StoryMapJS is free online software that lets you tell a story with media — including images, video or audio – and augment …
The Meal
First, a preamble to set the context. I feel I need to explain why I went out of my way to create a page on the website to talk about …
StoryMapJS – Part 2 Building a StoryMap
This is Part 2 of a three-part tutorial on StoryMapJS. Here we’ll focus on how to build a StoryMap and in Part 3 I’ll cover how to share a StoryMap with others.
The Anti-Climactic Ice-Fishing Excursion
Late during my stay in Cambridge Bay, I was part of what turned out to be a memorably odd chartered ice-fishing trip. My memory is very hazy about most of …
StoryMapJS Tutorial – Part 1 – Introduction
When you’re telling others about where you’ve gone and what you’ve experienced, wouldn’t it be cool to show them the exact locations of your travels on a map while you’re …
A Trip to Taloyoak
Why make such a big deal about a trip to another town? In the excerpt Traveling to Cambridge Bay, I wrote about my initial trip to Cambridge Bay. It was …
Snowblind on a Quad
“Mount” Pelly is an esker and is called “Uvayuq” in inuktitut, the native language of the Inuit. I know this now because Wikipedia told me so. There was no Wikipedia …
Out on the Land
The local description for travelling away from civilization onto the arctic tundra is going “out on the land.” Saturday, September 6 was a big day for me. It was the …
Taking Pics
It’s Saturday, September 27, 1997 and the weather was still holding. Most people have been saying that the icing up of the water in the bay is unusually late this …
Sleeping in an Igloo
Soon after the group “igloo building bee” (check that out here), the first brave souls to sleep in the igloo (the first night after we built the thing on March …