Peeking Into Knowledge
I am a huge fan of the recently deceased Dallas Willard. Dallas was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, prolific writer, and deep thinker about things that matter. He left this earth around 3 years ago. Recently I was rereading...
Algorithms to Improve Your Life
If you don't listen to the podcast "Note to Self," I would encourage you to do so. Last year I wrote a post on one of Manoush's (the host) podcasts and she has some wonderful bits on the tech side of being human. Recently I listened to an episode about how to use...
Life Happens
Life happens. I teach classes to students who are entering or are already in jobs where my class is considered part of the career development. They are not going to transfer to another school. They do not want a degree, but one would be nice. They are in the class...
Professional Development Day a Success!
[slideshow_deploy id='10987'] Student veterans, models of molecules, fillable PDFs, moral inquiry, electronic portfolios--these were just a few of the forty five topics available to faculty and staff at our first annual Faculty Staff Professional Development Day. Our...
Around Campus: CIT New Faculty
We would like to welcome Lisa Balbach and introduce her to the NMC community. Lisa joined the Business Area this fall as an instructor in the CIT Department and comes to us with five years of experience as a programmer/analyst and over 25 years of teaching experience....
Placement Changes for Spring 2017 and Beyond
In the past year and a half there have been a number of changes that have spurred the Student Success Center, Advising Center, Communications Department, Math Department, and the Office of Research, Planning and Effectiveness to rethink our processes surrounding...
Meet Paragraph
Before you work on your next document, take a moment and meet Paragraph and the tools it offers to help make things easier for you. No more using the spacebar for formatting! Bullets – Create a list of non-sequential items. Numbering – Create a list of sequential...
Priorities
Remember the dull, disappointed feeling you get whenever a capable student does just enough to get by? Apparently not learning anything significant from your carefully architected lesson plans? Ignoring your enthusiasm? Attending in body but not in spirit? As a...
November Friday Forum – Faculty Technology Sharing Showcase
How are faculty using technology to support learning? The CIE November Friday Forum, co-sponsored by Educational Media Technologies, is an opportunity for faculty to share technology integration in the classroom or in online courses with their peers at our first...
From the OER Trenches: A post that’s both tardy and lengthy
[Image: "Frankenstein" by Khánh Hmoong CC BY-NC 2.0] This semester is my third semester using OER (Open Education Resources) here at NMC to teach ENG 111, and I have also jumped in with OER for my ENG 112 course this fall. On ENG 111: I spent my first semester of OER...