We’ve all started new jobs before and we’re all familiar with the challenge of getting to know new colleagues and learning about the culture and climate of a new workplace. Twelve people work in the Educational Media Technologies department here at NMC, and four of...
A friend of mine (and a career educator) recently shared an article with me titled Shifting from Pedagogy to Heutagogy in Education. ‘Heutagogy’ is a term coined by by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon of Southern Cross University in Australia. It’s derived from the Greek...
I use a computer. A lot. Because so much of my work revolves around a computer, I’ve found different tools that help save time performing different tasks. Many times these tools come in the form of an extension that I’ve added to my browser giving me one click...
The lightboard is an innovative teaching and learning tool that enables instructors to capture lectures in an exciting, engaging format. Essentially, instructors stand behind a lighted piece of glass mounted on a stand. Words appear to glow and float, resulting in an...
We’ve put out a lot of information recently about new features in Moodle 2.9, many of which pertain to the grade book. One big improvement is that if a field in the gradebook is empty, Moodle will no longer value that field as a zero when calculating cumulative course...
