My summer has been full of work-related travel--first to Portugal, then Alabama, and now Spain. In May, I facilitated a three-day SoTL retreat in Portugal and then a two-day SoTL institute in Mobile, AL. In Salamanca, Spain, I attended and presented at the conference of the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED).
The retreat in Portugal was held at a hotel on Ofir Beach just west of Fão. (See photos to the right.)
I saw firsthand why Mobile is "the rainiest city in the US," according to my hosts and many of the faculty participants and a few old websites. In between downpours,