July was quite a month. A trip to Berea, Kentucky, for a workshop on using Sakai, two trips to my parents' house in S.C. (to drop off and to retrieve our dogs, among other reasons) ... lots of travel. A bit of vacation as well, in going to the beach at Hunting Island State Park, on a barrier island near Beaufort, S.C. It's my favorite beach, and home of my favorite lighthouse. (It's comparable in height to the one on Cape Hatteras, N.C., but I've not been to that one yet, so for now, Hunting Island still reigns.)
It's good to be back home, and back to work, since the fall semester is looming. It promises to be a very busy academic year, both in my teaching responsibilities and other professional and academic commitments. Here lately, I have been working on some scholarly articles, with hopes of circulating them in journals over the next few months. And I have been spending a lot of time trying to better understand what is collectively called "Web 2.0," and its potential ramifications for teaching and learning.
To that end, I have set up a public "Netvibes" page, to be used in conjunction with some of the courses I am teaching this fall, to see how it might work. It's online at www.netvibes.com/padgett. I have included tabs on educational technology and political news, along with a few other areas of potential interest, and will likely be adding a few more as time gets closer.
