Helping Students Be Successful: Reaching Out
I have begun making appointments with students who are not being successful and compelling them to come to my office to work out an action plan. I give them a written appointment like the one below: If I can get the student to come to my office for this meeting I talk...
Open Textbook Day at the Library
Open textbooks are free online, cheap to print, and have saved NMC students $481,000 since Fall 2015! Come learn more about the Open Educational Resources movement on Tuesday, March 21, all day in the library. Textbook Petting Zoo: Compare quality and prices of...
Using Groups in Moodle: Please Read
Thanks to a recent help desk ticket from one of our faculty members I thought it was worth sharing with everyone. If you are using groups in Moodle do not forget to add yourself to the groups you create. This is especially important if you are using the notification...
Benefits of Meditation:Top 6 Benefits
Watch this video about the top benefits of meditation.
Present-Moment Awareness Buffers the Effects of Daily Stress
Preset-Moment Awareness Buffers the Effects of Daily Stress is an article worth reading. New research published in the Journal of Research in Personality shows that present-moment awareness, a key feature of mindfulness, increases stress resilience and effective...
Interesting Tools
I recently attended the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. Below are some different links to information and resources I picked up through sessions I attended. Cool4ed.com is a resource through California State University for OER textbooks. Check out the “Course...
Service Dogs
Service dogs - a very hot topic on the civil rights listservs I read. In this article I will share some resources to help you understand the difference between a service dog and an emotional support animal and which is allowed in the classroom. Who doesn’t like a good...
Best Practices for MS Word
The following are some best practices to remember when creating Word documents. Information taken from The Office of Accessibility, mn.gov/mnit/accessibility. Use document styles: Use heading and paragraph styles to structure the document. Add alt-text to images and...
Faculty Spotlight: John Zachman
John Zachman is our very own political science professor and is part of the Social Sciences department. John has been with NMC for over fifteen years, teaching the majority of our political science classes, serving as part of our union negotiation team this past year,...
TRENDS Call for Presenters
On behalf of the TRENDS in Occupational Studies committee, I wanted to share with you the "Call for Presenters" form. This online form is used by the various committees (Technical, Health Sciences, IT, General, etc.) to solicit potential presentations for the 2017...