Born Digital – Part Two

Born Digital – Part Two

The literature on Digital Natives addresses three themes: a skill-divided generation, what about technology is important, and what technology is important. A skill-divided generation refers to a non-homogeneous generation of technology users that are composed of power...
Born Digital – Part One

Born Digital – Part One

Born somewhere between 1979 and 2002, the majority of NMC’s current students fall in the generational stereotype of “Digital Native”: never knowing life without computers, video games, cell phones (smartphones), and cloud computing. Assumptions abound about how this...
Welcome Back to a New Academic Year

Welcome Back to a New Academic Year

The Educational Media Technologies team would like to welcome all faculty back for the start of the 2017-2018 academic year. As many of you know, we were very busy over the summer getting ready for the Moodle upgrade, creating a new Moodle & Online Learning...
Video Camera Check Out for Student Projects

Video Camera Check Out for Student Projects

Did you know that EMT has video cameras that students can check out for course projects? Well, we do and there are three different models for students to choose from for a three day check out. The Canon HD camera above is a more traditional looking video camera but...
Creative Commons Images

Creative Commons Images

  Earlier this month, the New York Times reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s (MET) public domain collection are now free for anyone to use under Creative Commons Zero licensing. The MET has 375,000 images in the collection, which can be...