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,...
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...