[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)!

[Glass Etching] Prizes EI2001 2016

At the final event of my course about pedagogical animations, each student choose to improve by themselve one video that they did in group during the semester, and the students choose themselves the three best such videos of the semester. This year, this final event will be in early July on [2016-07-07 Thu], the day after I come back from a month-long trip to the other side of the world: I made sure to have the prizes for the final event, and the presents for my five amazing Teaching Assistants who will be managing the course while I am away, before I leave. I used a similar theme to the one I used last year for the "Pedagogical" prizes of the TUApp 2015 event, some owls, symbol of wisdom in antique Greece.

Here is an example of one of the prizes given to the students. The typo is not voluntary (it should be "Pedagogical Animation" or "Animaciones Pedagogicas", not "Pedagogical Animacion"), and I could still correct it, but I am thinking about letting it in: it is typical of the course after all, with my English getting mixed with my Spanish...

This year I am relying even more than usual on my Teaching Assistants, so they deserved special attention (that, plus Jorge, who was my T.A. last year, complained that he received "only" a box of chocolates when he was hoping for an etched glass ).
So here is my thank you to Natalia:

Here is my thank you to Jorge:

Here is my thank you to Tiare:

Here is my thank you to Isidora:

Here is my thank you to Eduardo:

[Job] First day of class

I survived the first day of class, the students seem happy and interactive. I am so happy I switched back to only two sessions and in the morning!