Trekkit Adventure

Be the Next Trekkit TV Star!

Now that Season One of Trekkit TV is over, we are now in the planning stages for Season Two, and we would like you to be the star!

Do you have an upcoming trip, tour, or interesting destination? If you send us an 8 minute 20 second clip we can use in the show, we will pay you $500. Could be a great summer project for students!

The audience coverage is Atlantic Canada for the local Community One TV station, but will also be posted online for the world to see. If you just want a way to help pay for your trip, or take the opportunity to expose your tours or destinations to Atlantic Canada and the Trekkit audience, this is your chance.

For more information please visit the Film Makers Wanted page.

Also for a recap of Season One please visit http://www.trekkit.com/tv

Save and Happy trekks,

Ryan Groom and the Trekkit Team

 

Trekkit for Windows Phone Released

Trekkit Journal, the first of the new Trekkit Platform, is now available for Windows Phone 7.5 and 8.

Please check out our Windows Phone Store listing.

Here are a few screenshots.

       

Now off to work on the Windows 8 Store app, then maybe iOS and Android.

Trekkit Journal is for recording your life’s special moments with a smartphone and create a private digital journal, and when you are ready, publish your journal items into a story to be shared.

 

Thanks for reading, we are just getting started!

Trekkit, Scotland, and Grade 3

I had a fun opportunity to go into a Grade 3 class at Priestman Elementary School and chat about my trek to Scotland and show them the “Family Heritage Trekk to Scotland” episode which aired on Bell Aliant Community One this Fall. Two other classes where invited so in total —- just under 60 students! The kids were fantastic! Very attentive and interactive.

Bribed them with cookies from Scotland (which I got locally but they WERE from Scotland) if they listened, which they did.

The next day to my surprise one of the classes (class 3A) sent home a pile of thank you cards detailing what they had learned. I was touched, really glad they enjoyed it.

The session kicked off a module in their social studies that gets the students to start to explore their heritage, I was glad to be a part of the kick off.

For the Scotland episodes and all the Trekkit TV episodes you can visit Trekkit.TV

~Ryan

Welcome to Trekkit.com

Fall of 2012 we secured the Trekkit.com domain, this was very exciting for us. For the next year we will have two sites running.

Trekk.it  - Will support the current iOS and Android app. This site will evolve to be a toolkit for tour operators.

Trekkit.com - Will be focused on the new suite of tools for mobile and tablets. We will start with Windows Phone and Windows 8 (early Spring) then releasing iOS and Android (late Spring).

A Different Vision for Social Media Sharing

The focus of the new tools is to let you capture life’s moments, creating a private digital journal. We help you capture them quick and share later so you can enjoy the moment and the people you are with instead of your attention focused on technology.  When the time is right you can publish stories made up of entries from your journal. The feature set is designed for travelers and photographers optimized for offline use. We are also working to be a compliment to your digital camera.

We are making tools that don’t just give another way to publish to Facebook and Twitter, but let you capture (location, photo, video, audio) interesting happenings, then when the time is right, tell your story.

Trekkit TV Launched

Trekkit is excited to have 13 episodes on Bell Aliant Community One for the 2012-2013 season. For those that don’t have Bell Aliant TV FibreOp, you can watch the episodes a few weeks later on Trekkit TV.

2012 Schedule

Tale of Two Mountains (Oct 8th)
A group of office workers climb Mt Katahdin and Mt Carlton. Guests Dr. Rodney McAffee who gives us guidance on the formation of the mountains, Ian Wilson guides us up and Paul Archer gives us a few survival tips along the way. It’s a light hearted adventure. Watch Now!

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Waterfalls of New Brunswick (Oct 22nd)
Trekkit explores 7 New Brunswick waterfalls, some as high as 100 ft. Guests include Dr. McAffee, Nicholas Guitard (author of Waterfalls of New Brunswick) and many others. Watch Now!

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Settler’s Path Part I (Nov 5th ) & Part II (Nov 19th)
Trekkit visits Saint Croix Island and gets a lesson in the early settlers then heads off to Port Royal and Fort Anne to follow in the footsteps of Samuel de Champlain. Official Parks Canada participation was in both episodes. Coming Soon

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Family Heritage Trekk to Scotland (Dec 3rd)
Starting at the gravesite of their 8 times great grandfather, John Matheson who arrived in Canada in the early 1800’s, two brothers return to Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland to retrace their family roots. Coming Soon 

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A Run Around the UK ( Dec 17th)
The Trekkit team visits Stonehenge, Edinburgh, Isle of Skye and many fabulous places in the UK. Coming Soon

Come join us on our treks and we hope is inspires you to go on a trek of your own!

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