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...
Nov 14, 2016
Over the past week I spent my time with a bunch of Data Geeks talking about Student Success and Outcomes in Austin. There were 13,000 others talking Data from all walks of life. Education, Retail, Healthcare, you name it the industry was accounted for. Being with all...
Nov 14, 2016
Interested in VoiceThread? VoiceThread is a program that students can use to produce presentations online where peers and the instructor can view and record comments by speaking and/or writing. Kay and Laura are writing an innovation grant to pilot VoiceThread for...
