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...
Mental Health
Is it just me, or are students suffering more from stress this semester? In the first five weeks of school this year, I have sent four students to the counseling center. One student is sick on every test day, one student can’t talk himself into getting up and coming...
Student Success: My days as a Road Reporter
The couple weeks prior to Professional Development Day I had the privilege to go out as a reporter for CIE and PDI to capture stories about how faculty and staff support student success. I would walk into each department on campus unannounced and seek out those...
Reimagining Three Amigos
Three Amigos? I always like it when things work out. You know, you discover those students who “get it?” Subject matter clicks with personal soul condition. Mystery is entered into. Lives are in the process of being changed. Education, with all its beauty,...
Are Models That Useful?
In a word - YES! Who doesn’t like to have a moment of investigation and play? Where you can sit and observe, examine and play? Models are show-and-tell in the classroom. They provide us a quick hands-on tool to put theories to the test. Models allow us to question new...