Save the Date: teachingSOLUTIONS & Course Development Institute

Save the Date: teachingSOLUTIONS & Course Development Institute

teachingSOLUTIONS Boot Camp:  May 9th – 13th A week long, face to face boot camp to learn Moodle, web-enhance your course, and learn skills to teach online.  Earn your Online Teaching Certificate to be eligible to teach online at NMC. Course Development...
Mahara e-Portfolio

Mahara e-Portfolio

Several instructors have noticed a new feature in Moodle that was added this semester.  We recently turned on the integration between NMC’s Mahara e-Portfolio and Moodle.  This has added a new button and option in forums and assignments.  These options can be...
Moodle Outcomes and Flying Squirrels

Moodle Outcomes and Flying Squirrels

Where’s Cousin Eddie?  He normally eats these things. This was one of many Christmas Vacation quotes that were being thrown around yesterday at my house.  We had a visit from a flying squirrel who made his way into our furnace.  After attempting to catch the...
Reading Your Colleagues: The 4×4 Challenge

Reading Your Colleagues: The 4×4 Challenge

We have just wrapped up our third annual 4x4x16 Writing Challenge. We invited instructors at NMC to create 4 new pieces of writing for 4 straight weeks.  Each piece of writing was to be approximately 16 sentences in length and  focused on teaching and learning.  That...
Yavapai College Syndication

Yavapai College Syndication

Seinfeld, Jeopardy, Teaching @ NMC, Law & Order, TELS Webletter, The Big Bang Theory.  The list of popular syndication deals goes on and on and on. Yavapai College, the community college in Arizona that originated the writing challenge idea, is currently hosting...