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Accessing Your NMC E-mail Account

Accessing Your NMC E-mail Account

When you click this button, does it take you to your personal Gmail account? In theory, this button should redirect you to your NMC configured email account. If you have logged into your personal Gmail account on the same machine that you are trying to access your...

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Robert Goulet and Aurora Borealis;  Only Connect

Robert Goulet and Aurora Borealis; Only Connect

Do you believe there is something germinal to our lives? Is there something planted in us, perhaps even before there was an us (imagine that one!), something of eternal weightiness, our uniqueness, the reason for OUR being here, OUR being human, which welcomes our...

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What Should Learning Be?

Well, learning, from a behaviorists standpoint, is a persistent and measurable alteration in an organism's behavior. We know we can measure the alteration in behavior fairly easily in our own test subjects (i.e. students). Give them some form of assessment and "see"...

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Learning is Loud!

The Mark & Helen Osterlin Library is the loudest library I have ever worked.  This past week it has been even louder than usual.  Maybe it’s the early snow or lack of sunlight, but there is definitely a loud vibe going on in the NMC library. We are a pretty...

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A picture is worth a thousand words

A picture is worth a thousand words

A picture is worth a thousand words. I received a submission for a writing assignment today via email.  It was a picture, included as an attachment, showing a handwritten homework assignment, taken with the smartphone, at arm’s-length.  I have received three...

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Understood Betsy

Understood Betsy

Have you ever read the book Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield? It is a children’s book, but is has a lot to say about education and learning. It is about a very timid, unobserving child, Betsy (Elizabeth Ann), who changes into a brave, problem-solving girl due to a...

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