Testing educational software where the antelope play

Welcome to Day 3 of Dennis and AnnMaria’s excellent adventure

If you are looking for sporadic internet connections for testing educational software, western Wyoming is the place for you! Driving through Las Vegas, the deserts in California and Nevada and some mountains the first two days of our trip, we’d found that Internet was an all-or-nothing. I also intensified my hatred for people who develop applications that have no ability to function offline. Guess what is going to be priority one for game updates? If you said “off line access” , congratulations, you are smarter than most people developing educational software today.

Do you know the difference between rural and frontier?

There are various definitions of “rural” in the U.S. but most have in common not being in or near a city of 50,000 or more. If you didn’t know, now you know — rural areas in the U.S. can be further broken down into categories like “frontier” , “remote” or, my personal favorite, “super rural”. Included a link here to prove that I am not making this up. A frontier community is defined, depending on the agency or program, as having somewhere between 6 and 11 people per square mile. By comparison, Los Angeles has 7,545 people per square mile.