4 x 4 x 16 Challenge Articles

Writing Challenge Kick Off

Writing Challenge Kick Off

The 4x4x16 Writing Challenge begins today.  We have 11 people signed up to participate, and there is still plenty of room for more.  If you are interested in participating, please contact Mark DeLonge. Over the next 4 weeks, our participants will create 4 pieces of...

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Writing Challenge = Free Ice Cream

Writing Challenge = Free Ice Cream

Beginning the week of October 20th, we will begin our SECOND Annual 4x4x16 Writing Challenge!  Hooray!  How does it work? We are inviting instructors at NMC to create 4 new pieces of writing for 4 straight weeks.  Each piece of writing should be approximately 16...

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NMC’s teaching@NMC in Faculty Focus Article

NMC’s teaching@NMC in Faculty Focus Article

There was another nice mention of NMC and our teaching@NMC website on December 13, 2013.  The 4x4x16 Challenge that we created at NMC was mentioned by Todd Conaway, the originator of the idea from Yavapai College in Arizona. Faculty Respond to the Challenge: Write...

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Wrap It Up:  4x4x16

Wrap It Up: 4x4x16

How my wife can wrap Christmas presents that look so nice with the fancy bows and everything is beyond me.  But that is a different wrapping subject. The 4x4x16 Instructor Writing project is a wrap! We had a group of eight instructors participate and create 30...

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Every Step of the Way

Written by Patty Olson, NMC Education Instructor, Adjunct & submitted by Jeff Straw. One technique that I found VERY useful particularly in teaching hormonal, uninterested 8th graders US history was combining your two ideas.  As a PREview, I broke the class into...

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Retrospective

Retrospective

Our NMC community hosts a great many stories: history's lessons, tomorrow's dreams, and tales of triumph (and of other well-intentioned ideas yielding more modest results). We grow as colleagues share these stories. We're uplifted and energized; we help carry each...

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Afterthoughts

Afterthoughts

The blogging project, 4x4x16, allowed me to organize my thinking into structured frames.  Each frame or blog served as a movement activity .  This format seemed to bridge the gap between structured writing and creative  journal writing.  Furthermore,  I was able to...

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Is there an app for that?

The data seems to be coming in that supports the idea that playing games can increase knowledge. In one study, it was found that playing an app called Motion Math: Fractions for 20 minutes a day for five days increased fraction knowledge by 15% among 120 elementary...

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