Rewards

It's the end of the semester so pretty much by definition the academic part of the blogosphere falls silent until everyone's grading is done. But in the past week or two I have officially received two awards, and I thought I'd share:

1) "Teaching with Technology Award Recipient. For his creative and innovative use of technology in the classroom, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is this year’s recipient of the Teaching with Technology Award. Professor Jackson incorporates new technology into nearly every contact he has with students. His primary purpose in using these methods is to enhance student-teacher interaction and to encourage greater student empowerment and control in their own educations. Professor Jackson will be honored at a luncheon in the fall. He will also demonstrate his applications of technology in the classroom during the Center for Teaching Excellence’s annual technology workshops this August. Congratulations, Professor Jackson. "

Psyche.

2) TENURE. The big one. I am now an Associate Professor (scary) and get to work on whatever I want to without fear of being dismissed (even scarier -- although for whom remains a matter of some controversy :-) I do have a couple of post-tenure projects cooking; more on those and why they are post-tenure projects in a subsequent post.

After the &^*%$ grading is done.