Lightboard Teaching Technology: Request for Participants

Lightboard Teaching Technology: Request for Participants

The lightboard is an innovative teaching and learning tool that enables instructors to capture lectures in an engaging format. Essentially, instructors stand behind a piece of glass that has been framed in LED lighting and mounted on a stand. When the instructor...
What Will Students Remember from Your Class?

What Will Students Remember from Your Class?

“Father Guido Sarducci – the character played by comedian Don Novello on Saturday Night Live in the 1970s – got some of his biggest laughs with a plan for a Five Minute University. Five years after they leave college, Sarducci noted, most graduates...
NEW Licenses for Camtasia and Snagit Now Available!

NEW Licenses for Camtasia and Snagit Now Available!

Camtasia and Snagit are powerful educational technologies that can have many practical applications for instructors. Both technologies fall into the category of screen recording/screen capture tools, and (depending on what you want to accomplish) you’ll use either one...
Active Learning – Simulation

Active Learning – Simulation

During 2014, we recorded several instructors around campus using active learning techniques.  The example below is from the Nursing program.  Watch this short video to get an inside look at the simulation scenarios and skills checks Nursing students experience at NMC....
We Are Not Alone (Teaching is not a solitary task)

We Are Not Alone (Teaching is not a solitary task)

Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) conference in Vegas. Five days of sessions conducted around peer-reviewed research focused on the best of what technology can bring to education for...