The Minimum Triva
Jesus wept. When I was in college, we ate our meals family-style. At the beginning of the meal, the senior class and freshman class would have a competition of trivia. We had to think of a question that would stump the other class. Usually there was some wager,...
Accreditation Portfolio Planning (HLC)
Regional accreditation is required for NMC to provide access to federal and state funding for the college and our students. NMC follows the AQIP pathway offered by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) which includes regular monitoring, annual Action Projects, Strategy...
Service Learning:Transfer,Time,Travel (Part 2)
Last week, I discussed how service learning could provide a real context for students to learn writing skills I’m trying to teach them (such as making appeals to an audience effectively). Focusing on an issue that is current and relevant in a local context can...
Of Mystery and Education
I have two sons and wonder with a sense of mystery what it means to educate them well. I grew up believing that education was somehow about taking a bunch of stuff which was external to me and making it a part of me. You know, taking that which is external and making...
Students & Teachers
The podcast " In The Classroom, Common Ground Can Transform GPAs" on Hidden Brain with host Shankar Vedantam, we begin to see the tremendous benefit of connecting with your students - finding common ground. Of course, we already know that connecting with your students...
Four reasons to teach students about digital citizenship: Why do we have to learn this?
Recently a group of pre-service teachers asked me, “Why do we have to learn this?” It was an honest question about digital citizenship and its relationship to our curriculum. At the moment I gave a fairly general response about how much the w…
Veteran’s Day Celebration
On Veteran's Day NMC will pay tribute to enrolled and employed veterans. As faculty members please encourage and allow any veterans in your classes to attend the breakfast planned at 8:30am in the Hawk Owl Cafe in West Hall. Please also consider coming out as a...
Summary and Review of “Incentives and Barriers to OER Adoption: A Qualitative Analysis of Faculty Perceptions” by Olga Maria Belikov & Robert Bodily.
I’ve been doing some reading to prep for a conference presentation in February, and I thought I’d share some findings about barriers to OER adoption. I particularly liked this study when I came across it in my research because of the methodology that was used. This...
Spring & Summer 2017 Moodle Course Shells Now Available
We recently created the Moodle course shells for all Spring 2017 and Summer 2017 courses. You should see courses assigned to you in your course list. The spring term has the 1702 semester code and summer has 1703. This number follows the unique four digit CRN for each...
Too Scary!
[Image: "Bull in a China Shop" by Gwen's River City Images, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0] In one of my daughter’s favorite TV programs is an episode she used to love: A bull in a china shop. Mr. Bull breaks his teapot and takes to to be fixed at Ms. Rabbit’s China Shop,...