As a nation, we just wrapped up the 51st Black History Month celebrations this February, and we move into the 34th Women’s History Month. I bring up the specific number to demonstrate that these initiatives are very young, especially compared to the hundreds of years...
Sign up now to receive Revelers at Roost, A Spring Break Diversion from NMC Library and Friends! We may not be taking a true Spring Break this year, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t pause now and again in the heart of the semester to recharge. While we seem to be...
[xkcd 14: "Copyright"] We typically think of copyright (to the extent we think of it at all) as a convoluted thicket of commandments that tell us what we can’t do with other people’s stuff. This makes sense. Most of us don’t have much cause to think about copyright...
Distance learning doesn't mean ditching your favorite "old-school" teaching methods! Though the whiteboard has been widely used in classrooms for over three decades, it is now making its appearance online as a virtual application, and the demands of distance learning...
We have a free subscription to Adobe Spark, a tool for creating posts like flyers, Instagram posts, etc., and for creating very simple to set-up and edit videos. If you are interested in access or training, please contact Alison Thornton at athornton@nmc.edu. ...
Beginners; The joy and transformative power of lifelong learning, by Tom Vanderbilt (2021) “It’s about small acts of reinvention, at any age, that can make life seem magical.” A few weeks ago my best friend called to tell me she was going back to school. It’s...
We’re seeking a partner course (or multiple partner courses) for an English 220 Technical Writing Final Project. It’s critical that the project include a data analysis aspect as Technical Writing students need to analyze data to construct a technical report. They also...
The Experiential Learning Institute (ELI) recently awarded me a $300 grant to purchase 30 WeVideo licenses for students in Lisa Blackford's Social Work 211 Introduction to Social Welfare course. WeVideo is a popular online video editing platform that's intuitive and...
It’s time to think spring and clean up your Ensemble Library or Zoom Cloud content. If you have previous semester lecture capture videos in your library, it is time for you to ask yourself: Do I need to keep or delete past lectures? Here’s what we need you to do for...