As the fall air turns chilly and winter cold threatens to appear and chase us inside, do you find yourself dreaming of the ability to hold office hours or study sessions with students online? How about the ability for your students to virtually attend your class?...
Faculty & CIE Articles
Accessibility Q&A: Scanned Documents
Can I scan a document (handwritten, typed, copyright material, etc.) and post it in my Moodle course as a PDF? No, and here’s why. Scanned documents are treated like image files and therefore cannot be read by assistive technologies, such as a screen reader,...
Saying Goodbye!
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...
Accessibility challenge: TAG (You’re it!)
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...
New Moodle Activity – Journal
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...
It’s Finally Here! Audio Feedback!
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...
Ready to Play Tag?
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...
Text Your Students 🙂
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...
Diversifying the Role Course Content Plays
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...










