Growing Your Students’ Mindset Online
Students with a growth mindset believe that intelligence can be developed. These students focus on learning over just looking smart, see effort as the key to success, and thrive in the face of a challenge. -Stanford's PERTS Mindset Kit (Beta) Teaching this to college...
Lightboard Teaching Technology: Request for Participants
The lightboard is an innovative teaching and learning tool that enables instructors to capture lectures in an engaging format. Essentially, instructors stand behind a piece of glass that has been framed in LED lighting and mounted on a stand. When the instructor...
Congratulations Sherry! – National award winning Lesson
Help us congratulate Sherry Trier for designing an award-winning lesson in the 2015 SoftChalk Lesson Challenge. Each year SoftChalk enthusiasts have a chance to be recognized for the innovative digital content they create for students. The judges consists of leading...
May NMC Scan Available
The May NMC Scan is dedicated each year to the subject of demographics. This issue includes data on the topics of population trends, unemployment, median income, educational attainment, the fastest growing/biggest industries and occupations in the U.S. and in our...
The Ripple Effect of Teaching with Service Learning
Last week, I was privileged to attend the final presentation of Kristy McDonald's students about their BIG Little Hero Race they sponsored to raise funds for Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Listening to the students describe their own growth during the semester due to...
Moodle Versioning & NMC: What you should know
As you may be aware, Moodle courses moving forward will be displayed through a new, responsive theme that has a contemporary look and feel. In the EMT department we’ve affectionately referred to the theme as The Green Machine, The Green Goddess and The Jolly Green...
Course Dev. Institute – Great Teaching & Learning Opportunity
We know you are incredibly busy and ready for a break, but before you go we wanted to offer you the opportunity to be a part of the First Annual NMC Course Development Institute designed to support you in your course redesign, development, and/or re-vamp needs. We've...
Summer Moodle Shells are Now Visible!
Did you know that you have the option to turn your shell off until you want your students to see it? Summer course shells are now visible. Your students CANNOT see this until 5 days prior to the start of that course. If you would rather your course shell be turned...
Moodle Open House
You're Invited! Who: All Faculty What: Moodle Open House When & Where: Thursday, April 30th from 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM in JB202 Monday, May 4th from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in the Scholars Hall, Tiny ALICE Lab Come check out the new Moodle look that all classes will...
CIE Reading Group Book
Each year the CIE Board selects a book which has connections to the classroom, but that also has ties to our personal and professional acumen. The book for the 2015-2016 academic year will be How We Learn. In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and...