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NMC Audio Tech Faculty Member Tours Music Row in Nashville

NMC Audio Tech Faculty Member Tours Music Row in Nashville

Ted Kocher, NMC Audio Tech instructor, recently traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to participate in the Immersive Music Production 2025 edition. The event took place on Saturday, May 17, across Music Row and Berry Hill—two of the city's most iconic audio production...

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NMC Technical Faculty Represent at LightFair in Las Vegas

NMC Technical Faculty Represent at LightFair in Las Vegas

Jeff Morse and Makenzi O'Rourke, NMC Electrical faculty, recently attended LightFair 2025, a conference and trade show at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. The conference also included open show rooms at the Las Vegas Design Center. They took Swoop and...

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Canvas and Moodle Updates for Summer 2025

Canvas and Moodle Updates for Summer 2025

It's been windy and cold, yet NMC's summer semester is right around the corner! Keep the following Moodle-and-Canvas related dates in mind as we approach the start of NMC’s next term: Monday, May 5th — Students populated into 12-week summer 2025 (2503) courses in both...

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Provisional Faculty Soar After Year 3

Provisional Faculty Soar After Year 3

We enjoyed a conversation with President Nissley earlier this month when he stopped by our last New Faculty Institute meeting of the year. Nick is pictured here with faculty who are finishing their final year of provision status. Other faculty completing their...

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Digital Accessibility Quick Tip: Scanned Documents

Digital Accessibility Quick Tip: Scanned Documents

Scanned text = image = unreadable...oh my! Did you know? Digital scans of physical text are encoded like images and are not readable by screen reading technology. OCR (optical character recognition) converts a scanned document into a format that allows people who use...

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Reflections Strategy: AI Edition at Friday Coffee Club

Reflections Strategy: AI Edition at Friday Coffee Club

Encouraging students to be thoughtful in their reflection writing can be a challenge, a situation made even more difficult by AI.  Luckily, Brandon Everest and Kristy McDonald from the Experiential Learning Institute have a number of strategies to make reflection...

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