[Teaching] Final Exam EI2001 "Animaciones Pedagogicas"

Today is the 15th anniversary of my PhD defense. I have done many things, dabbled in many area. I even quite a few good papers accepted, the latest to the Journal of the ACM. Maybe it's time to work on this habilitation thesis and to stop being an "assistant professor". Maybe that would get me more respect from some colleagues. (A voice in the back of my head is yelling: do not count on that!)

But today, I will be celebrating the final exam of my course of Pedagogical Animations with my students, with home made brownie and hand made engraved glasses for my Teaching Assistants and for the students!

The respect from my students is worth much more than that of any "University Professor". I wish I had both, but I would be much more unhappy with the respect of my colleagues without the respect of my students, than I am with the respect of my students without the respect of some of my colleagues. Thanks to the students, TAs, and colleagues Nicolás Badas, Manuel Olguin, Jorge Romo, Aleh Veraskouski, Alexander Golynski, Meng He, Rocío Esperanza Molina Silva, Reza Zadeh, Macarena Andrade Muñoz, Peyman Afshani, Mauricio Quezada, Arash Farzan, Francisco Claude-Faust, Edo Millacaris, Annie Lee, Carlos Ochoa, Ryan Berckmans, Diego Seco, Bernardo Aníbal Subercaseaux Roa, Daniel Crepu Mendez, Ariel Tello Fallau, Kasra Zokaei, Marcela Romero Cisterna, Gonzalo Flores Escobar, Yigo Kairos, Alberto Ordóñez, Carlos Gajardo Maureira, Alejandro Salinger, Bob Fraser, Juanjo Alegría Fuentes, Arturo Vial Arqueros, Tomás Lagos, Moisés Abraham Ordóñez Alarcón, Gloriajean Knight (Unicycle student extraordinaire!), Leydy-dee Dee, Eric Y. Chen, Leila Chinaei, Diego Arroyuelo, Fady Samuel, Olga Zorin and many others that I don't have on FB (or that I forgot to mention)!

[Travel] I am going on a trip to US/Canada!

I am leaving today for a long trip. Time to post this old picture of the moon over Santiago!

I had a few minor last minute emergencies, I am so proud that I dealt with them calmly and efficiently! An acceptation to a journal arrived, which needed some minor corrections within the next month, when I will be away for all that time: I did it in a few hours. I was announced 142 students registered to my workshop of Android programming, when I was expecting 30 with a limit of 60: it took only a few conversations and emails to change it to 3 modules of 40 people, which will still insure some selection but not reject more than half the people interested! I discovered that I needed to give a remedial exam to one single student! I composed the exam using my super database of solved problems in 30mns, the student will take it this morning 9:00-12:00, I will mark it 13:00-14:00, go home, check my luggage 15:00-16:00 and jump in the cab at 16:00 to go to the airport. Not quite Indiana Jones, yet the adventurous academic life!

Indesor

J'enseigne depuis quelques semaines à l'institut pour mal-entendants de Santiago, aidés de 3 auxiliaires et d'un spécialiste qui sert d'interprète. Les élèves sont très contents, et mes auxiliaires et moi apprenons beaucoup!

I have been teaching in the last few weeks at the institute for deaf-students of Stantiago, helped by 3 teaching assistants and one specialist who serve as an intepret. The students are very happy, and we are learning a lot!

He estado enseñando en el instituto de la Sordera en las últimas semanas, ayudado por tres auxiliares y un especialista quien sirve de intérprete. Los alumnos están muy felices, y mi auxiliares y yo estamos aprendiendo mucho!

Se basant sur la vision et non sur l'audition, les élèves sont très attentifs quand on leur explique quelque chose au data-projecteur. Et quand ils sont concentrés sur leur propre écran, il faut éteindre la lumière de la salle pour leur faire tourner la tête!

Using vision and no audition, the students are very attentive when explained something on the data-projector. And when they are focused on their own screen, one has to turn off the light of the whole room to call their attention!

Basados en la visión y no en la audición, los alumnos están muy atentos cuando se les explica algo en el data. Y cuando están concentrados en la pantalla de sus computadores, hay que cortar la luz de toda la sala para llamar su atención!