A word about spring cleaning: It’s that time of the year when fall semester is winding down and preparations are being made for spring. Please take time to consider a bit of spring cleaning in your Ensemble Video account. If you will not be reusing your lecture...
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...
A song from us to you (we saved you from actually hearing us sing): On the first day of Christmas EMT brought to me Alan popping popcorn. On the second day of Christmas EMT brought to me two digital cameras. On the third day of Christmas EMT brought to me three Moodle...
Did you know that you could collect feedback from your students using the feedback tool in Moodle? What is it? The feedback activity module allows you to create custom surveys to collect feedback from your students. You can use multiple choice answers, numeric...
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...
The largest minority at NMC is Native Americans, and yet we have many misconceptions based on movies, television, and other portrayals. Most of us can easily separate fictional qualities of famous females such June Cleaver, Roseanne Barr, Ellen DeGeneres, and Sofia...
The link below leads to an up-to-date and fairly brief article posted a few days ago by Phil Hill. It may be a good overview to share with others. http://mfeldstein.com/cbe-an-updated-primer-for-todays-online-market/
Engaging Practices, Engaging Students: High-Impact Practices in Community Colleges Based on findings from focus groups conducted in colleges across the nation and the integration of results from its four complementary survey instruments, The Center for Community...
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...