The annual Liberal Arts Network for Development Conference (LAND) for Michigan community college faculty and staff will take place in Muskegon Feb. 15-17. As well as being the most affordable conference in world history, LAND offers attendees an opportunity to learn...
Accessible content doesn’t just benefit those with disabilities. For example, in the case of web video, captioned content benefits ESL students and those who prefer to learn by both reading and hearing new terminology. In a sound-sensitive environment like a library,...
Many of you attended the Professional Development day session in October and heard from some of our veterans about their experiences in the military and adapting to college life. Building on that knowledge I wanted to bring awareness to another battle they may be...
Welcome to spring semester 2017. I thought it would be a good time to share a Fact-Sheet on Disability Etiquette We spend a lot of time trying to make our materials and facilities accessible to our stakeholder with disabilities. Let’s not forget to engage with the...
We've recently installed several new Moodle plugins that offer some incredible functions and usable features for the online portion of your courses. We've added tools that help you: boost student engagement get notifications when assignments are ready to be graded...
There is a new feature in Ensemble that allows you to quickly create your own thumbnail image for your video. This is the image that shows when you see the video in your library or pull it up to preview or play it. No more thumbnails of you caught with a funny face!...
Be sure to congratulate John Velis and Al Laursen when you see them around campus in the next few weeks. They are this year's nominees for the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Teaching Excellence Award and will be recognized at the NISOD...
Thanks to all faculty who attended the January PD day on Monday. We hope the overview of Dee Fink's significant learning model was useful and helps you feel ready to write or revise your outcomes as well as link your assessments to your outcomes. Here are a couple...
[slideshow_deploy id='11594'] A number of faculty gathered in the library on the last Thursday of the semester to pound out some final grading. Mark DeLonge and Ryan Bernstein were there to solve Moodle problems and Tina Ulrich helped with research questions. We broke...