Thank you to the faculty and staff of NMC for making my 7+ years here a wonderful learning and growing experience. I will miss working with you. I am very excited to begin my new adventure as an Educational Technology Specialist at the Interlochen Center for...
October challenge: Play Tag with us Your accessibility challenge for the month of October is to "Tag" all of your images inside your eLearning (Moodle) course shells. It's easy as 1 - 2 - 3! Check your eLearning (Moodle) Course. Accessibility Tips: Check your Moodle...
Introducing.... Journal. Available on October 10th, this will be a new activity available for you to add to your eLearning (Moodle) course. Through this activity, you can post a question for your students to respond to or ask them to "journal" in regards...
That's right, you heard right! On October 10th PoodLL will arrive! What does this mean? Students can create audio submissions for assignments. You can leave audio feedback in assignments. You can use a PoodLL quiz question type for audio responses. Want...
Did you happen to read the Scoop post Accessibility Experience - Ready to Listen? It contained a couple of helpful links to free screen reader programs. Those programs can help you check if your material is accessible to students with low or no vision. So, you follow...
Speak the language your learners are listening in. reproduced with permission from Scott Hamm, Abilene Christian University What is this language? This language is normally portable, visual, and entertaining. Using a text message to communicate with students is an...
Maryellen Weimer discusses the role of content in her highly-acclaimed "Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice" (Osterlin's CIE collection has a few copies). In this recent article for The Teaching Professor Blog, she challenges us once again to look...
"The main ingredient in all success is wise choices. That's because the quality of our lives is determined by the quality of the choices we make on a daily basis." Skip Downing, On Course, Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life. The Wise Choice Process...
“Most people are hung up on the idea of asking for help. From the time we're born, we are told that the American ethic is self-reliance. Pull your own weight, row your own boat, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and a host of other similar sayings pervade our...