We have just wrapped up our third annual 4x4x16 Writing Challenge. We invited instructors at NMC to create 4 new pieces of writing for 4 straight weeks.  Each piece of writing was to be approximately 16 sentences in length and  focused on teaching and learning.  That was it.  The first posts came out the week of November 2nd, and we wrapped up just before Thanksgiving. We borrowed the idea from Yavapai College in Arizona.  They are running a similar challenge, and we shared some of our posts back and forth during the Challenge.

Last year we had twelve people participate in the challenge, and we had thirteen people writing this year generating over 50 new pieces of writing this fall on teaching and learning to share with the NMC community and beyond. Take a look at what you and your colleagues have written: read Sarah Wangler’s list of students she’s thankful for, Deb Pharo’s conversation with the student so different from herself, Keith Weber’s discussion of the role we play in piercing “the cocoon in which most of our learners have been raised.”   Review writing from this year and years past by clicking on the 4x4x16 link in the navigation bar on the teaching@NMC site.  Or if you read Nick Roster’s post and would like to read a paper text, check out the paper anthology from the CIE library in O-134.