This autumn, it was Elk's Street's humble scribe's turn for ephemeral celebrity - as the photo below shows.
The award was given at a formal student dinner, which involved certain rituals, most of which come from the German university tradition, and at which I surprised everyone by holding the acceptance speech in Finnish.
Listening to some of the other speeches, I became more and more astonished at being singled out. With age, my classroom style is becoming more and more old-fashioned - I don't use electronic learning environments ('virtual learning' is just that - not quite the real thing), I don't use electronic feedback, I'm tardy with giving grades, and I hardly get round to being bothered to use the blackboard any more.
Mind you, Socrates didn't use much technology either - perhaps because he played football!
Thomas also had his moment in the spotlight. He was invited to the mayor's Independence Day reception. As with the Finnish President's Independence Day Ball, the event begins with shaking of hands - for a taste of this click here.
Thomas was maybe not quite as well-dressed as those in the video but he was still quite smart, as shown by the photos below.
How did the teaching story end? By the management in its wisdom transferring me to duties where I spend most of my time staring at a computer screen and very little time in the classroom. Hurray for managers.... not!
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