Wrap It Up:  4x4x16

Wrap It Up: 4x4x16

How my wife can wrap Christmas presents that look so nice with the fancy bows and everything is beyond me.  But that is a different wrapping subject. The 4x4x16 Instructor Writing project is a wrap! We had a group of eight instructors participate and create 30...
Celebrating the Season with EMT

Celebrating the Season with EMT

A song from us to you (we saved you from actually hearing us sing): On the first day of Christmas EMT brought to me Alan popping popcorn. On the second day of Christmas EMT brought to me two digital cameras. On the third day of Christmas EMT brought to me three Moodle...
Introducing Moodle Feedback

Introducing Moodle Feedback

Did you know that you could collect feedback from your students using the feedback tool in Moodle? What is it? The feedback activity module allows you to create custom surveys to collect feedback from your students. You can use multiple choice answers, numeric...

Every Step of the Way

Written by Patty Olson, NMC Education Instructor, Adjunct & submitted by Jeff Straw. One technique that I found VERY useful particularly in teaching hormonal, uninterested 8th graders US history was combining your two ideas.  As a PREview, I broke the class into...
Our Fires Still Burn and Other Stories

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...