Open Classroom Week for Faculty
From February 26 to March 3, some new "students" will be sitting in NMC classrooms. These students will actually be faculty participating in Open Classroom Week. This is a CIE-sponsored initiative to promote contemplation and conversation about teaching and learning...
“Use Heads Up” Questions
Student Engagement Aids Text Comprehension. Try this “Heads-up Questions” Strategy. How many different ways have you tried to prepare students for the class activities? How do you get students to participate in discussions and not always have the same students...
Questioning Strategies to Encourage Student Engagement
Creating a purpose for reading or viewing focuses students’ attention on important concepts in the text or recorded lectures instructors use to guide them. As academics, instructors readily pull information from sources with confidence while students may not share...
Help Your Students Read Their Textbooks
Last semester, one of my students came to me for help with another class. She felt that the tests included material that was never covered in class. And even the stuff that was covered in class she felt she often struggled to understand fully. When I asked her how she...
2018 Winter Conference Information and Links
This year’s Winter Conference focused on the non-cognitive issues that our students face. The NMC Reads book, Paying the Price, gave us the research to support what we have been seeing--our students face many challenges as they make their way through college. Mickie...
The New Dennos!
The New Dennos is now open! Following the January 21 community celebration day with free admission for everyone, join Jason Dake for a brief tour of the new galleries on any of the following three dates and times. This is your first chance to see the new permanent...
Communicating with Students
Establish a Communication Policy What better time than now to communicate expectations with students regarding turn-around time on phone calls, emails and graded assignments? Do you have a communication policy in your syllabus and possibly posted in your course...
Long Night of Grading is Back!
It's cold, it's dark, it's the end of the semester, and you're buried in grading. What to do? How about coming to the The Long Night of Grading brought to you by CIE, the Osterlin Library and Educational Media Technologies? On Tuesday, Dec. 12, just when you are most...
Two Mini-PD Opportunities in January
CIE is offering two learning opportunities for faculty on Jan. 11. Helping Your Students Read the Textbook Thursday, Jan. 11, 10:00-10:45 in SH 204. The first session led by Nancy Gray and Kristen Salathiel will be a practical, hands-on workshop focused on specific...
Moodle Grade Annotation & Microsoft Word Issue
We've noticed an issue with Microsoft Word submissions and the Moodle grading annotation feature that we'd like to let you know about. In Microsoft Word, there's a native "References" feature that allows students to manage resources, insert parenthetical citations,...