Recent Posts
Upcoming Events
Moodle Question Types – More than Multiple Choice
We are working with an instructor to create a new online Geography course this fall. As part of that process, I created a demo quiz that contains several different types of quiz questions that can be created in Moodle. That's right, Moodle can do more than just...
Helping high schoolers: Tag team with high school counselors
Last spring at the beginning of the semester, one of my online Eng. 111 students wasn’t logging into Moodle or responding to my emails. If he didn’t get started soon, he’d be a week behind. I pulled his transcript, saw that he was a dual-enrolled student from...
How Wrong I Can Be
It always starts on day one of classes when my first activity is for them to line up by birthday, irrespective of year. My objective is just to get them moving, interact some with each other, and to suggest that my courses are not very conventional. The process is...
40 Years as a NMC Student
We are committed to the lifetime of learning mantra. I started taking classes at NMC in 1978, taking a BASIC computer programming class in the basement of Scholar’s Hall. After 40 years, this is likely my final semester as a full-time student. In 2008, I retired...