The journey wasn’t a particularly difficult one. A geocaching buddy Hugh and I trudged across lake ice early in March, 2021 to get to an island on which a “puzzle” geocache was hidden. The story of that experience could be made more dramatic if two of us were hunched over walking into howling wind and…
Some movies stand out from the rest. Often that’s because they do a good job of dramatizing situations from which you can learn essential truths about the human condition. The Shawshank Redemption and Gravity both excellent example of doing just this and both are worthy of your time and attention. These are very different movies,…
A recent post introduced you to my ugly mug from Tobe. It has to be said though that having a coffee mug as a souvenir from Japan is more than little odd. In Japan, tea rules. The everyday tea that people drink is green tea, generically called Ocha (お茶), and it is the fuel that…
It’s over 35 years old now. These days it’s not my first or even second choice when it comes to choosing a coffee mug in the morning. But the mug I painted up with glaze to be fired as a souvenir from Tobe, Japan still tells me an important truth when I free it from…
Do you love learning new things? Yeah, me too. But if you think about it, you’re not going have someone answer that question with, “Not me! Learning’s just not my thing!” You won’t because humans simply like to learn new things. It’s in our nature. That said, I think you’ll agree that there are differences…
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 that story by displaying specific locations on a map. It’s one of many projects developed, hosted and freely shared by Knight Lab, part of Northwestern…
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 the experience of eating just one meal. I arrived in Cambridge Bay on August 25, 1997 and the story of the meal took place on…
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.
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 the particulars of the trip, including about exactly when it took place, but it certainly during the spring of 1998. Ice-fishing in spring? You might…
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 telling your story? StoryMapJS is great way for you to do just that. This will be part one of a three part series about StoryMapJS….
