Have you already done your faculty service work? Has your January service been pushed over into February? Are you still waiting for the right opportunity to show up on the United Way app? It’s all good! That is, it’s all good in our opinion. We want to know what...
I stepped away from my formal responsibilities at the college in 2018-2019 and took a year’s sabbatical. Doing so provided an opportunity to immerse myself in a period of planned reading, researching, thinking, and writing. The experience was invaluable. What did I...
Days before the holiday break, my news and listserv feeds blew up with headlines about a new service from OpenAI called ChatGPT. If you are unfamiliar with OpenAI this New York Time article gives you some background information about ChatGPT. For those without access...
POLICY MAP. This is a teaser for all of you looking for ways to integrate data in an easy and meaningful way into your classroom activities and assignments. Check out the next issue of Owl Pellets for Three Ways to Use Policy Map from Nicco, coming to your inbox soon!
Curiosities returns this semester with a star-studded cast of guest facilitators and a mix of in-person and virtual programs. As always, we'll explore each topic for four consecutive weeks, meeting weekly for a freewheeling discussion on a curated set of articles,...
Thanks to all the faculty and staff who presented and otherwise helped out at the October Conference! It was a great day of learning, sharing, and camaraderie, from the presentations by our guest speaker, Todd Zakrajsek, to the First Annual Staff/Faculty Kickball...
Did you know NMC has a Center for Teaching and Learning? If your answer is no, you are not out of the loop. Just before March 2020, Kristen Salathiel and I consulted with the CIE Committee and Ed Tech team to create a place for both our groups to exist under. We...
Imagine taking a semester or a full year off to pursue a dream project at your own pace. You focus, you relax, you produce work that will benefit the college. A sabbatical sounds amazing -- and it is! But if you’re interested in taking a sabbatical, you need to start...
Join CIE and NMC Library on Friday, September 30, for our first Friday Forum of the year as we explore a range of tools and approaches both new (PolicyMap, Wiki Edu, the library’s Curiosities series) and familiar (books, ebooks, periodicals, New York Times digital...