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….
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 a long day, and about as antiseptic as modern air travel can be. On the other hand it was trip in the new, the unknown….
“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 the day we undertook this trip. It would first appear a little over 2 years later. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvayuq Saturday, September 27, 1997 After a morning…
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 first time I had the chance to venture out of town onto the tundra with a vehicle. Quads and of course snow mobiles (we generally…
