Fall updates: New DVD check out location & Zoom tidbits
DVD Collection On August 4th, the Ed Tech team moved from their location in the Osterlin Building to the basement of West Hall Innovation Center. We are in the space formally occupied by the NMC Bookstore. As part of this downsizing, we handed over the management of...
Moodle Dates for Fall 2020
Time may have become a flat circle abstraction in the age of COVID-19 and distance learning, but the fall semester approaches to remind everyone that time indeed does march on. Below you’ll find important Moodle dates relevant to the upcoming school year: Once Upon a...
Two Takes on Assessment
I have been thinking a lot recently about assessment. First, I've been thinking about it because, you know, it's a lot of what we do as teachers--we try to figure out what students are learning and what they are struggling with. Second, I was part of Nick Roster's...
The PD Funding Process for FY20-21
As part of the college-wide belt tightening this year, CIE's budget has not been funded. Instead, we are using the money that we have left over from last year to fund our needs for this year. I do not think this will be as bad as it sounds. Because of the pandemic,...
The October Conference Goes FedEx
For the past three years, the CIE- and PDI-sponsored NMC October Conference has been a wonderful day of collaboration and engagement for all faculty and staff. However, due to the pandemic, we are not able to collaborate in the same way this year. And I think we all...
The All-New August Professional Development Day
The August Conference has traditionally been held on Monday afternoon right after Opening Conference, but because this year will be very different both in terms of meetings and teaching, CIE has decided to take a different approach. Rather than spending an afternoon...
OLO for the Fall 2020 Term
Students enrolled in online classes have been required to complete NMC's Online Learning Orientation (OLO) course since the beginning of the Fall 2019 term. During the Fall 2020 term, OLO will still be required of students taking fully online courses. OLO will not be...
teachingSOLUTIONS: New Options for Online Teaching Certification
Your friendly Educational Technology team is now offering more options to become certified to teach online: Option 1: teachingSOLUTIONS Virtual Boot Camp Who: Anyone wanting to become certified to teach online/hybrid courses at NMC. Where: Online (Zoom ) When: July...
OER Curation Guides
Recently Tina Ulrich (retired NMC Library Director and current Creative Commons certified OER Consultant) shared these fantastic OER curation guides based on Colorado’s Top 40 courses with members of the OER Squad. The guides, compiled by librarians and vetted by...
New to Moodle 3.8: Whole Forum Grading
Whole forum grading is a new feature to Moodle 3.8 that allows instructors to assess student forum postings from an intuitive grading interface that collects all of each student’s postings on one page. Here’s how to set it up: Step 1: From within your course in...