Category: geography
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Hello from Hong Kong
After 28 hours of travel from Oklahoma, I’m pleased to report I’ve arrived safety in Hong Kong and am looking forward to a day of visiting several international schools tomorrow. The 21st Century Learning @ Hong Kong Conference starts on Thursday. Before catching some sleep tonight, I uploaded about 50 photos to Flickr from my…
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Podcast326: Reflections on the Google Teacher Academy – Boulder, Colorado
This podcast was mobile-recorded from the road, driving across Kansas following the Google Teacher Academy in Boulder, Colorado, on August 5, 2009. The GTA is a packed day of learning, and I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to not only learn more about Google and Google Tools, but also network with some extremely innovative teachers from…
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GTA Boulder Notes: Afternoon Part 2
These are my notes from the Google Teacher Academy, in our second afternoon session. All resources are linked from http://sites.google.com/site/gtaresources/Home. Now hearing from Jerome Burg – resource links from Jerome – Google Lit Trips were born at the first GTA – Carol Anne McGuire forced me to go public with this! (another ADE) Jerome has…
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Incredible tornado footage
Thanks to both Eric Langhorst and Beth Still for tweeting the link to this amazing footage from Vortex2 of the tornado this past week in Wyoming. The most remarkable part of this video for me was this section which showed a “tornado within a tornado.” I remember many years ago talking about tornados with my…
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A Scary Wall Cloud and Rotation Over I-40 Today
Today was, without a doubt, the most adrenaline-inspiring drive on an Interstate highway I’ve experienced to date in my life. It’s ironic today’s experiences driving west on I-40 from Oklahoma City to Amarillo came on the heels of last night’s post, “The lure of iReporter fame encourages dangerous tornado chasing.” I was thinking as we…
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The lure of iReporter fame encourages dangerous tornado chasing
Wednesday night I posted “Webstreaming Storm Trackers” to the ISTEconnects blog, and noted how webstreaming technologies along with more pervasive cell tower connectivity is empowering a new generation of storm trackers / storm chasers to broadcast “live” from the field as severe weather hits local communities. Actual storm spotters, in contrast to amateur storm chasers,…
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Storm Stories from Texas and Oklahoma
Today’s severe weather in Lubbock, Texas, (where we’re visiting currently) reminded me of storm stories which have been recently shared in our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling and oral history project. This is a photo I snapped today of storm clouds in Lubbock, just after a tornado warning expired in the SW part of town.…
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Geo-StoryChasing and Gabcast call limits
I’ve created a new presentation and workshop I’m calling, “Geo-StoryChasing.” I’ve listed a variety of mobile audio, video, and photo sharing options (many supporting geolocation) on the wiki curriculum page I started. If you know of others I should include, please let me know by commenting here. This is the short description for this session:…
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Geysers in Rotorua at Te Puia
One of the highlights of my day yesterday in Rotorua, New Zealand, was visiting Te Puia and seeing the mud pools as well as geyser basin. This was an introductory “welcome” video I recorded in the morning from my hotel balcony, overlooking part of the crater lake of Rotorua. I am now COMPLETELY sold on…
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Erewhon, Mt Sunday (Edoras) and the Rangitata Valley
Today was another marvelous day in New Zealand. Thanks to the generosity and kindness of friends, I had an opportunity to realize a dream: I saw and stood near the actual landscape setting for “Edoras” in the film trilogy “The Lord of the Rings.” Mount Sunday is located near Mt Potts Sheep Station in the…