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...
Clickers Are For Lovers (of learning)
From Keith Overbaugh, D.V.M. Science, Biology Instructor I’ve been using a classroom response system (clickers) so long I forgot where or when I was first introduced to them. The only reason I was drawn to this technology was that I had just realized that the two...
Introducing Smarthinking
Smarthinking is a free online tutoring service for NMC students. Students connect to educators for live, online tutoring up to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, enabling students to get the help they need when they need it. Tutors do not solve the problems for students,...
New NMC Instructor Site: “teaching @ NMC”
A new, one-stop shop for all NMC instructors that includes teaching resources, educational technology, upcoming events, professional development, 21st Century teaching and learning practices, and more. Teaching @ NMC allows faculty...
Do you use video or lecture capture? If so, read on…
We have changed video playback systems: Flowplayer has retired! If you use video or lecture capture in your course(s) and have not heard about our transition away from the one used for several years, Flowplayer, then this message it for you! It’s true, Flowplayer has...
Joe Sanok on Creating Groups
Resources can be more than the latest thing, the coolest program, the niftiest tool; they can also be the "awesome" people we work with every day. Did you know that you can ask NMC professionals into your classroom? We would like to introduce Joseph Sanok, invite him...
Are You Ready to Teach Your Online Course?
August 19th is the date to be ready! Online courses will be "turned on" and students will be populated into them. Remember that all online classes are made available to students five days prior to the start of the semester or class session. Here are a few things to...
Attendance: The Blackford Files
“Well, Mark, I want the students to show up for my class,” stated Lisa. At the start of the new semester, Lisa Blackford decided she wanted to implement an attendance policy in one of her Social Work courses. The idea was to give students 20 points for attendance for...