A Closer Look at Moodle Updates and Changes
New features include expanded options on the Date Report and visual improvements in the Student view of the Gradebook. Slight changes include how you turn courses on, the location of the Reports, Editing tools, and selecting settings in Assignments. Let's take a...
Ladibug’s in the Classroom
Meet the Ladibug DC120 document camera. The new doc cams operate through a computer. Turning the device on, adjusting the zoom, brightness, and focus will all be done through the Ladibug software on the classroom computer. Did you know that the Ladibug camera can do...
Keep Web Accessibility in Mind
What is Web Accessibility? "Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to...
Ideas worth sharing, but what is the lure?
All of us have blog ideas to share from our personal practice that would benefit others, yet choosing the relevant information to share can be as challenging as learning to fish. Fortunately, there are some guidelines to help writing edublog entries. Much like a...
NMC Librarians Are Ready to Assist Your Classes
The librarians at NMC's Mark & Helen Osterlin Library can help your students develop their research skills. If you have an assignment that requires finding, evaluating, and incorporating information sources, librarians can visit your class or your class can visit...
Tip: Turning Courses On
Turning your course on, or making it "visible", for students is a little different. Click on the link below for a quick tutorial on how to make your course "visible". Tutorial link for turning on your course, or see below.
There’s something new on classroom computers
It's Office 2013 BUT, don't panic, Office 2013 is compatible with Office 2010 documents, and they haven't moved things around like they did in previous upgrades! You can open and edit your PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, Excel files, and other Office 2010...
Copyright: Brushing Up
As you start preparing for the semester, please take a moment to consider Copyright and how it affects you, your course content, and students. To help you brush up, take a moment and review the following brochure, "Know your Copy Rights". Also check out our...
Variations on a theme as the crux of creativity
It's the start of the semester. Choices abound on how to be successful. Others give you advice, the web is full of advice, and you give yourself advice based on past experience. How do you or any instructor sort through all of the advice and stay true to their...
Two seconds can save a life
That may sound over-dramatic when referring to the first few seconds when our students arrive, but research says differently. According to Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005). “ ...this ability we have as humans, to quickly make...