i won something...
...which doesn't happen often so gosh darn it, I'm going to say something about it. I was named "Instructor of the Month" at
Sessions.edu. I know, I know, whoop-de-damn-do, it's not a "real school" and these aren't "real classes" but
I was pretty stoked about it (and the extra hundred bucks that came with it!). This was the nice thing they said about me in the monthly faculty newsletter:
The 21st instructor-of-the-month award of $100 goes to ... new instructor Julie Meloni for delivering great service in the database/dynamic web design course to a whopping 25 students in her first month. As you can imagine, PHP and SQL is a proving a challenging subject for our students to learn, compared to our visual design courses. (Wot? No Dreamweaver?) But Julie has stuck with the students and made numerous updates and adjustments to the content to make sure the launch went off smoothly. Kudos!
Personally, I just think they felt bad for me because I had problem students, and I spend a lot of time answering e-mail and grading exercises, and until yesterday my course was offered at a discount so technically I was working for half-price. Or maybe they just like me. That'd be fine, too.
It's not official yet, but it looks like I'll be teaching another course for them starting in the next month or so. Someone else is writing it, but he doesn't have the time to teach it [insert chuckle about "having time" here]. Will post more when it's official, lest I completely jinx it now.
