This past summer, Educational Media Technologies put together a Knowledegbase to help faculty and students accomplish goals with the various technologies available at NMC. We're always available to answer emails, tickets and phone calls, but the Knowledgebase exists...
Did you know that the way you format your course materials can affect how accessible they are to your students? In this age of technology, students have a wide range of tools and apps available to them to access online content. More and more we see students using...
While wrapping up my PowerPoint for a Professional Development Day presentation, I asked myself several probing questions. Why would anyone choose to attend my session? How can I make it relevant? What would attendees remember afterwards? What change, if any, might...
If “humor goes awry in the classroom” were a headline, we could all immediately imagine multiple scenarios based our own experiences or stories we’ve heard. Perhaps a student takes a teacher’s joke literally (e.g., a teacher saying “I want you to laminate these paper...
Did you know you can access millions of books, magazines, news and scholarly articles from around the globe via the NMC library databases? Our databases aren’t just here for students, but are here for all the faculty and staff too! Database resources can add a...
My friend, Todd Conaway, started the idea of a writing challenge several years ago at Yavapai College in Arizona. Todd has recently moved to Bethel, Washington and taken the idea with him to the Northwest. His idea is brilliant, yet simple as so many brilliant ideas...
Even for those of us who enjoy learning new technologies, there are times we resist adding a new tool to our repertoire. Such was my stance towards Interactive White Boards. It’s not that I didn’t understand the potential in using them, but…
Rocky, Rambo, Indiana Jones, and Jaws all had four sequels. The 4x4x16: Year 4 will be coming to a blog near you soon, and it will definitely be better than Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. As in years past, those that would like to participate in...
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...