Our Fires Still Burn and Other Stories
The largest minority at NMC is Native Americans, and yet we have many misconceptions based on movies, television, and other portrayals. Most of us can easily separate fictional qualities of famous females such June Cleaver, Roseanne Barr, Ellen DeGeneres, and Sofia...
Overview Article on Compentency-based Ed
The link below leads to an up-to-date and fairly brief article posted a few days ago by Phil Hill. It may be a good overview to share with others. http://mfeldstein.com/cbe-an-updated-primer-for-todays-online-market/
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...