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.
New Educational Media Technologies Service Survey
If you have had any email communications with the Educational Media Technologies team since the beginning of the semester, you may have noticed some additional text at the bottom of the team member email signature. It should look something like the image below: The...
Removal of My Grades Block: Important!
This semester we had to remove the My Grades block from the Moodle dashboard due to some errors in reporting. Students still have access to their grades by going into the course and accessing them through the Administration block within each course. We recently...
Moodle Completion and Checklists
As a trial, last spring semester I tried something new to attempt to get students to read the weekly instructions on Moodle and to complete all work. This is when I noticed the checklist activity. Enable Completion Tracking Before getting started make sure the...