Nov 14, 2016
The semester is winding down and the panic is setting in. There seems to be the immediate need to catch-up with the material. I was asked today if we are going to review all the stuff we learned in the semester. There was a disconnect in viewing the current...
Nov 14, 2016
I’m coming to the time in the semester when I focus more on getting students to revise and edit their essays. After we finish our third major project, we will move into portfolio revision in the period after Thanksgiving. For this portfolio work, I ask students to...
Nov 14, 2016
November is Epilepsy Awareness Month and because that diagnosis applies to several in our NMC community I thought a bit of information would be in order. Did you know: Epilepsy is a disorder of the central nervous system which can cause seizures* 1 in 26 Americans...
Nov 14, 2016
A few years ago, I attended weekend seminar “Designing Courses for More Significant Learning” – a prior version of NMC’s August professional development program. I used Dee Fink’s approach twice in major course designs, and I’ve...
Nov 14, 2016
We create models for several reasons. We use them to analyze and understand what’s happening around us, we use them to predict and control behaviors or outcomes and we use them for entertainment. There are bad models that don’t work very well. We usually...
