I love teaching--planning lessons, diving into my content, working with students--but I admit I'm less fond of grading, especially at the end of the semester. But now there's an alternative to those long, lonely hours of grading --The Long Night of Grading brought to...
This year's Mid-Year Opening Conference and Professional Development Day will be January 9. During the professional development portion of the day, we will continue our focus on developing course outcomes with the goal of finalizing all course outlines by January 13....
It's the end of the semester--the time when students have a chance to show what they have learned all semester. But it's also the time when we teachers can get a bit overwhelmed with the sheer amount of grading as well as the decisions that have to be made in creating...
For a long time you’ve been able to access Q and S drives and other drives remotely through an application called NetStorage. NetStorage is available by going to your MyNMC page and clicking on “Q & S Drives” in the “Other Services” drop down area. In the near...
I just got back from a conference and the most powerful session I attended was entitled “The Role of Care in Faculty Development.” Based on the work of Nell Nodding, the session focused on how in addition to caring for our students, we have to care for each other as...
“Education is inherently and inevitably an issue of human goals and human values.” These words are found in the introduction to Howard Gardner’s Five Minds for the Future. He places before us five critical uses or “muscles” of the human mind if we are to live well in...
We have been seeing this phrase, or something like it, more often these days. There are quite a few instructors at NMC that have delved into this idea of Mastery Learning. I have been using this principle with my courses in conjunction with gamification. Using new...
Global Perspectives: How the World Works Global Perspectives: How the World Works is the Phi Theta Kappa Honors Study Topic for 2016-2017. The topic is broken into eight themes and this past weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Michigan Region Mini Honors...
The semester is winding down and the panic is setting in. There seems to be the immediate need to catch-up with the material. I was asked today if we are going to review all the stuff we learned in the semester. There was a disconnect in viewing the current...