Webinar: Thursday, Dec. 5th
Engaging Practices, Engaging Students: High-Impact Practices in Community Colleges Based on findings from focus groups conducted in colleges across the nation and the integration of results from its four complementary survey instruments, The Center for Community...
Retrospective
Our NMC community hosts a great many stories: history's lessons, tomorrow's dreams, and tales of triumph (and of other well-intentioned ideas yielding more modest results). We grow as colleagues share these stories. We're uplifted and energized; we help carry each...
4x4x16 Writing, Ice Cream, Education, and Maybe a Book
I was offered free ice cream for writing 16 sentences. I would have written more for less reward, so I guess NMC and I both thought we got a good deal. It was not that hard, considering that it was only about two sentences a day. Actually, it was less than that. ...
Afterthoughts
The blogging project, 4x4x16, allowed me to organize my thinking into structured frames. Each frame or blog served as a movement activity . This format seemed to bridge the gap between structured writing and creative journal writing. Furthermore, I was able to...
Have You Thanked Your Shop Teacher Lately?
I'm embarrassed to say I never did, not that I recall. Yet, I believe he taught me as much about general education outcomes as many traditional academic classes. Terry O'Banion's keynote speech this summer at a League of Innovation conference I attended used the...
Student Death Procedure
Over the past year, the BIRT Team (Behavioral Intervention Report Team) has been developing a procedure to address the very unfortunate occurrence of a student death within the NMC student population. This procedure is now in place to give faculty and staff some...
Do You Use VHS Technology or Video Distribution?
We are in the last phase of removing VHS Technology from our campus. Soon, we will no longer have any VHS tapes in our media library nor will we have VHS players for use with your own VHS tapes. If you are still actively using a VHS tape from our library, please let...
Is there an app for that?
The data seems to be coming in that supports the idea that playing games can increase knowledge. In one study, it was found that playing an app called Motion Math: Fractions for 20 minutes a day for five days increased fraction knowledge by 15% among 120 elementary...
Twenty-Minute Mentor Series
In addition to the CIE-sponsored Friday Forums, please consider placing the following Fridays from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on your calendar: December 13th, January 17th, February 14th, and March 14th. Those are the upcoming dates of the CIE-sponsored 20-Minute Mentor...
Defunct Adjunct
Hello, my name is Ryan and I'm a defunct adjunct. I've brought it all upon myself. In addition to being an adjunct at NMC, I have a full-time gig at a local Internet hosting company in Traverse City where I host daily webinars teaching people how to create their own...