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...
Book Review: Lesson Study Step by Step
Bronwyn Jones wrote this about lesson study for the October PD Day, "Originating in the US in the 1980’s, then migrating to Japan where it flourished, lesson study focuses on how instructors can impact and change student thinking as a means of catalyzing deeper...
You Now Have Access to the Full 20 Minute Mentor Collection
On the third Friday of every month at 10 am, CIE sponsors the 20 Minute Mentor Coffee Club, an hour long gathering where we watch a short video on a specific topic and then discuss ideas generated by that video. It's a great chance to get some new ideas for the...
Quick Reads
This article defending the effectiveness and value of the lecture in the classroom created quite a stir on the POD listserv. See what you think. "Lecture Me. Really" from The New York Times This article presents an opinion very different from that in the article...
When Should a Student Bail?
She came to see me during my office hours. She is so different from me. She has blue striped hair. She wears fake eyelashes that are about an inch long. She wears shoes with 6 inch heals. She is an artist. She has tattoos and piercings. She is so different from me. I...