Every semester I approve a handful of students to receive the accommodation of a reader (someone who reads the material exactly as written) and/or scribe (someone who fills in an answer sheet exactly as dictated by the student) for tests and quizzes. A student might...
Communicating information through multiple modalities (visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic) enables students to access information. Learners differ in the ways that they perceive and comprehend information that is presented to them. For example, those with sensory...
Do you backchannel? When I attend professional conferences, I often participate in the conference backchannel using Twitter to tweet from the keynote presentation and the concurrent sessions that I attend. I will also follow the backchannel while I’m not in sessions...
This Friday, come join your colleagues to investigate the new learning communities being sponsored by CIE. Do you have a group that would love the time to collaborate, problem solve, laugh with colleagues? The December 4th Friday Forum will provide an introductory...
We have just wrapped up our third annual 4x4x16 Writing Challenge. We invited instructors at NMC to create 4 new pieces of writing for 4 straight weeks. Each piece of writing was to be approximately 16 sentences in length and focused on teaching and learning. That...
It's been at least five years since I first read Carol Dweck's Mindset, but it still informs many of my interactions with my students and my own children. This book has been around a while--you hear about it at conferences, we chose it as an NMC Reads book a number of...
Carpentry is one of the oldest trades around. People have been building since deciding they needed shelter from the elements. Devin Hill is a long time Carpentry Instructor here at NMC and teaches 3 courses every semester that deal with some aspect of the Carpentry...
I was listenting to the podcast "Note to Self" the other day. I really like to download a whole bunch of different podcasts and listen while driving. So much so that I actually look forward to long car trips now. Anyway, enough about me... This episode was titled...
Last week I presented to a biology class about their final project. I provided a lovely handout (if I do say so myself) that outlined the different sections of their project and how to best create their content. But there was one glaring issue: a typo. Of course I...