Calling all Job Seekers the Career and Employment Fair is coming!
Our 10th Annual Career and Employment Fair will be held Thursday, March 3, from 4-5:30 pm, at the Hagerty Center on the Great Lakes Campus. It is free and open to all students, alumni, and community members. Check out the list of employers to do some research before...
Save the Date: teachingSOLUTIONS & Course Development Institute
teachingSOLUTIONS Boot Camp: May 9th - 13th A week long, face to face boot camp to learn Moodle, web-enhance your course, and learn skills to teach online. Earn your Online Teaching Certificate to be eligible to teach online at NMC. Course Development Institute: ONE...
You’re Invited: EvaluationKIT Open Workshop/Training Sessions
EvaluationKIT is the new course evaluation system being used at NMC and you’re invited to attend an open workshop/training session to learn how use your EvaluationKIT dashboard. Feel free to pop in at any point during one of the sessions below to learn how to access...
NMC Student Veterans: Hear First Hand
Colleagues, In attempt to better-understand the unique challenges that student veterans face in college, NMC’sStudent Veterans of America (SVA), in conjunction with NMC’s Military & Veteran Services, will be sponsoring a webinar on Thursday, February 25...
Creating a Bridge to Learning with Scaffolding
As experienced teachers, we intuitively know many approaches to helping our learners engage with content. Occasionally, we discover scientific, research-based strategies that reflect what we intuitively know. Now with brain-research and increased knowledge in how...
Auxiliary Aids and Services
Auxiliary Aids and Services - for the many years I served K-12 students as an educational sign language interpreter, that’s how I was designated on the paperwork. Each Individualized Education Program (IEP) specified what services the student would receive to help...
Making Texts Meaningful
The Power of Visualizing and Creating Sensory Mental Images Visualizing and creating sensory mental images describes one of the most powerful comprehension strategies. According to Buehl (2007), “Comprehension involves breathing life experiences into the abstract...
See It in Action
The following video is a screen reader reading a PowerPoint presentation that does not have accessibility principles applied, notice the reading order, and how images were used to communicate content but skipped over. Then the same presentation slides are fixed using...
Working with PowerPoint
When creating your PowerPoint presentation, you have to ask yourself if you will be posting your file online. If you are, we suggest that you save your file in two ways. First, put your presentation together following the tips we provide here for making it as...
A Quick Read
Check out this great article on, Sign Language Interpreters: In the Classroom. It gives some great tips and things to remember when working with an interpreter.