Priorities

Priorities

Remember the dull, disappointed feeling you get whenever a capable student does just enough to get by? Apparently not learning anything significant from your carefully architected lesson plans? Ignoring your enthusiasm? Attending in body but not in spirit? As a...
November Friday Forum – Faculty Technology Sharing Showcase

November Friday Forum – Faculty Technology Sharing Showcase

How are faculty using technology to support learning? The CIE November Friday Forum, co-sponsored by Educational Media Technologies, is an opportunity for faculty to share technology integration in the classroom or in online courses with their peers at our first...

Service Learning:Transfer,Time,Travel Part 1

Over the past three years, my students have contributed to cross-disciplinary service learning projects focused on homelessness and poverty. As many of you know, my writing students (along with social work and sociology students) have been constructing community...
NMC Osterlin Library: A Place Where Everyone Belongs

NMC Osterlin Library: A Place Where Everyone Belongs

Remember the television show Cheer’s?  Where Norm sat in his usual chair and the theme was “everyone knows your name”.  Sure there’s no bar or alcohol, but one of the library’s goals is to make sure everyone feels like they belong here.  A public library in New...
From the OER Trenches: A post that’s both tardy and lengthy

From the OER Trenches: A post that’s both tardy and lengthy

[Image: “Frankenstein” by Khánh Hmoong CC BY-NC 2.0] This semester is my third semester using OER (Open Education Resources) here at NMC to teach ENG 111, and I have also jumped in with OER for my ENG 112 course this fall. On ENG 111: I spent my first...