Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Category: travel

  • Laptops and iPhones Can Eat Cellular LTE Data FAST

    The past two days I’ve been in Tahlequah and Stilwell, Oklahoma, sharing some presentations and providing some coaching/mentoring for teachers at Maryetta School on behalf of Storychasers. I was delighted to find LTE cellular data service through T-Mobile was available in Tahlequah at my hotel. This meant my laptop could access the Internet MUCH faster tethered to my…

  • Great Mobile Device Battery Chargers

    Last Thursday and Friday my wife and I attended Miami Device, and not surprisingly, we brought a large number of “digital devices” with us to the conference. Shelly brought a Chromebook, iPad and iPhone, while I brought a MacBook Air, iPad, iPhone, and Nexus tablet. If you’ve traveled with members of your family recently, I’m guessing…

  • Road Trip Wireless Devices (July 2014) #SignOfTheTimes

    According to a Qualcomm infographic published by ArsTechnica in May 2014, in the United States “the average home has 7 connected devices today, that’s predicted to exceed 20 devices by 2020.” If our family was included in that survey sample today, we would definitely inflate the mean. This weekend our family took a 1600 mile…

  • GeoMap Comparison of Cellular Data Speeds Between OKC and Dodge City

    Sunday afternoon and evening I drove from Oklahoma City to Dodge City, and I noted the cellular data speeds available from T-Mobile on my iPhone5s and from Verizon on my JetPack mobile hotspot on the trip. I used Google Map Engine Lite to create a GeoMap comparing the results. This is the map key /…

  • Documenting the 2014 Trapper’s Rendezvous with iPhone Video

    This weekend my son and I camped near Hutchinson, Kansas, with several thousand other Boy Scouts and Scout leaders at the annual “Trapper’s Rendezvous” campout. I created a 14 minute video yesterday afternoon with footage I captured at the event, and edited it together with iMovie for iPhone. The Trapper’s Rendezvous campout is an opportunity…

  • Photographic Highlights and Mapping Media Learning from NW Illinois

    This week I had a very enjoyable opportunity to spend a day and a half with 70 educators at Eagle Ridge resort in northwest Illinois, very close to the Mississippi River. Here are a few of the photographic highlights of the trip, which included an hour of shopping Wednesday afternoon in picturesque Galena. These photos…

  • Document Field Trip Learning with AudioBoo

    (Cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) As a free audio service with free smartphone apps for both iPhone and Android, AudioBoo is an ideal platform to use on a student field trip to document experiences with both audio and images. This morning I accompanied my 3rd grade daughter’s class to the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City, as…

  • At the Eastern Edge of our Continent: Wells Reserve at Laudholm (Maine)

    Today our family explored the Wells Reserve at Laudholm, which is “a National Estuarine Research Reserve with its headquarters listed on the National Register of Historic Places.” We don’t have estuaries in Oklahoma. According to the English WikiPedia, an estuary is: …a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams…

  • Boiling River: Best Kept Secret In Yellowstone National Park

    If you visit Yellowstone National Park and are interested in “experiencing” hot springs in a very direct way, you won’t want to miss “Boiling River.” This special place is maintained by the Park Service but not listed on official Yellowstone maps or marked with road signs. The popularity of Boiling River has led to some…

  • Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone: Perfect for HDR iPhoneography

    If you have an iPhone, you need the $2 Pro HDR app. HDR photography (High dynamic range imaging) combines a dark exposure and a light exposure of the same scene to create an picture with far more color depth than a “regular” digital image. Even though my iPhone4 has a built-in camera HDR feature, without…