A Quick Read
Check out this article in Inside Higher Ed titled, "The Right Thing to Do" about the University of Michigan Press and guidelines on accessibility. 'The Right Thing to Do'
Developing Strategies for Learners with Invisible Disabilities
Creating courses designed to meet the needs of a wide range of learners poses a challenge for all educators. Yet recognizing the needs of learners with invisible disabilities creates additional challenges. According to Matthews (2009) invisible disabilities refers to...
Warming Up to Writing…For the 2nd Time
It’s that time of year again. Asked by Mark to write, I find myself forced to reflect on why I do what I do and clarify what exactly it is that I do. Make sense? I know that an unexamined life is not worth living. I believe it was Socrates who said this. But the...
Reflection on Fall Professional Development Day
Now that the Allies for Inclusion exhibit is packed up and sent to the next location, I wanted to share one of the videos from that event. But first, thank you to everyone who joined us for breakfast in the Sculpture Court before the start of Fall Professional...
Educational Media Technologies: New Director
We are happy to announce that Dr. Terri Gustafson has joined EMT. She came to NMC after 18 years at MSU, where she was previously the Director of the Center for Teaching and Technology at the College of Education. She finished her Ph.D. in Higher, Adult, and...
Come and Celebrate: NMC 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...
Do not go gentle into that good night
Are new technologies making teachers irrelevant? Our space is increasingly encroached upon by MOOCs, gamification, online classrooms, competency based curriculum, iPads in the classroom, virtually unlimited online information, and other threats to the traditional...
Growing learning through connecting classrooms
The EDU101 hybrid class I teach has one homework assignment that takes at least 45 hours, and many of the students ask if they can spend more time on it. Some do struggle with their schedules to get it all done, but the question the ask is usually a variation of, "Can...
Thumbs Up for October Professional Development Day!
[slideshow_deploy id='7527'] View pictures from the October PD Day. Thanks to everyone who attended and/or presented at this year’s October Professional Development Day. We got free admission to Dennos, made soup, connected to the Cloud, cut textbook costs, talked...
Around Campus: Jane Zlojutro and Service Learning with Soup
When you hear "accountant" you might think boring, quiet, set in her ways, obsessive even. Accounting instructor Jane Zlojutro, however, is none of those things. She believes in taking risks and keeping class lively. "I'll try anything," she says. "If I fail and it's...