Where Was August?

Well, that was fast.

I hardly know what I did though I took a lot of time off work. And this summer I think I took more “time off” than I have in many years. I don’t feel rested.

I did have some wonderful things happen around my work and life in general.

I have been meeting with the VR learning community out of Bellevue College. It is a monthly meeting set up and I make most of them. I have suggested that rather than meeting in Zoom, we should meet in some VR space. Well, we finally did just that and it was really great.

I am continuing down a path with some really good people in pursuit of doing a presentation/conversation at the Reclaim Open conference. Our efforts are about how the ds106 Daily Create can be useful to us. For my part I am pondering the Faculty Remixer. It is like a blender you add faculty to and see what gets mixed up. Hopefully it will taste like a mojito.

We are working on this site and hope to have it fleshed out by presentation time in November. It is nice to see and hear these people on a regular basis. The image below is missing the amazing Paul Bond.

I went to Seabrook, Washington for a week with the family and had a blast. It is a really strange place. Like those early track housing developments, it was like an ideal little town with a main street and grocery. Then all these cute little homes with porches all lined up on nice streets with kids riding bikes all over the place. We had a nice visit. Moslty wandered around the beach. We even parked ON THE BEACH. That was new to us.

I got to share some ideas at the Clover Park Technical College AI + OER Conference. Sadly, I missed most of the first day workshops, but I did attend a few on Saturday. One was my own…

Perhaps the most wonderful moment of work in August came when I got an email from a faculty at the University of Windsor. My only connection to her was that Dave Cormier had enlisted her to share some ideas about open pedagogy at an event I helped organize a couple years ago. Tranum was thinking about spending some of her upcoming sabbatical here on the UW Bothell campus and asked me to assist. I have tried and I hope succeeded, but it is a pretty involved process that I have exactly zero experience with. We shall see where it leads.

And just like that, it was over.