Twice a year, the Global Lit Book Club meets to discuss books about life in other cultures. We try to read one fiction and one non-fiction book each year and try to choose countries that are in the news. Two weeks ago we met to discuss Blue Label by Eduardo Sanchez...
Similar to an escape room, a breakout box is an activity you can use with your class. The class is broken into teams and each team tries to solve a series of puzzles and problems. This activity can be used to engage a class in content review, pretesting knowledge,...
Join us for an extra 4x4x16 podcast as we explore the secret former life of Mac Beeker, a.k.a. Norm at Night, a.k.a. Stormin' Norman in the Morning, a.k.a. Little Mac, a.k.a. Mr. Cooch, a.k.a Dooley, a.k.a. Professor Beeker.
As we close down 2019 and finalize NMC’s fall semester, be aware of these important Moodle dates: Friday, December 28th – Fall 2019 (2001) courses turned off. We routinely turn courses off 10 days after final grades are submitted. If you need a course left open,...
Let's face it: not everything needs an app. In fact, some processes and products are better left alone. Then there are other times where minor refinements breathe fresh air into an otherwise stale world. Enter Rocketbook: an erasable notebook paired with a smartphone...
I just returned from a conference of the National Association of Biology Teachers. This year the conference was in Chicago. It certainly makes it easy when the conferences are close by, hp the train in Grand Rapids, no fuss. I try my hardest to get to at least one...
We’ve heard students discuss tests, of course: "too long, too hard, too often"-therefore I am always surprised when I hear students at the END of the semester bemoaning the fact that there were NOT ENOUGH tests. They state that they want to "be able to prove what they...
It happens every year when the snow hits the parking lot. People forget how to park. Those of us that go to work every day generally park our cars in a parking lot 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year. We don’t seem to have any trouble getting our car parked between the...
Three years ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Rekognition, a video scanning service designed to recognize key elements within a video frame. If IMDB ever helped you recall which actor starred in what movie, then think of Rekognition as the ultimate video search...