Getting Help Readying Moodle for Your Exams
Since transitioning to distance learning, Ed Tech has seen a large uptick in help desk tickets requesting assistance with importing tests into Moodle. As we get closer to exam season, we expect these requests to increase further. To ensure everyone receives help in...
A Historical Perspective
Watch a short video from Tom Gordon.
Food Pantry Open
The NMC Food Pantry remains opens for business despite campuses being closed through April 2020. We average about an order a day for food and hygiene staples for our students. They can continue to order online at nmc.edu/food-pantry. Orders are packed and made...
Counseling Available
COVID-19 has certainly impacted the ways in which NMC’s Student Life team carries out our daily operations. We understand that this is a time full of unknowns, and that this can create a significant increase in stress and anxiety for all of us. Students are...
Teaching Psychology during Covid-19
Factors helping me make the transition from face-to-face to online: already using OER text, Moodle, I always text students all semester long , using various technology platforms every semester and in the Winter/Sp. 2019-weather was a good test drive...NMC cancelled or...
Retraining
Luke Southern is a freelance artist and this rendering* of Maslow’s hierarchy depicts so succinctly how I feel about now. Actually, it’s more like I am hanging on by my fingernails, sliding down to safety, scrabbling back up to affirmation, just to slippity-slide back...
Becoming Our Best, Bravest Selves
As a way of making sense of my days, even prior to the coronavirus pandemic, most nights before I retire I do some journaling to help me reflect upon my day and my leadership practice. I ask not only how'd we do today; but also, how might I do better tomorrow. That's...
Trauma-Informed Teaching: Applications to online teaching during Covid-19
I've done a considerable amount of reading on trauma informed teaching over the last two weeks. It is very relevant and pertinent given our new realities. As a writer and reflective practitioner, I've been writing down my thoughts and connecting together my readings,...
Making it FUN – keeping students engaged in uncertain times
My classes have theme weeks. If you're a student in my class, you can guess the theme via facebook (Drcathynmc), twitter (@DrCathyNMC), Instagram (@DrCathyNMC), or just do it old school in our Zoom meetings in Moodle. I've even grabbed the username on YouTube, but...
What I’m reading: articles on equity, trauma-informed teaching, & what our students need RIGHT NOW
I've been doing considerable reading in the evening hours, absorbing the advice and feedback from colleagues in higher ed and K-12. We are all navigating this strange online transition. And we're learning along the way. Here are some of the more thought-provoking...