Dec 22, 2020
“The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate.” Dr. Wayne Dyer Unfortunately, we have witnessed an extraordinary amount of ignorance this year, as each week provides us with another tin-hat...
Dec 22, 2020
Flipgrid is a free, user-friendly, and ADA-compliant platform for creating video-based discussions. Popular among K-12 teachers, Flipgrid is gaining traction in higher education because of its ease of use and the demand to create interactive and engaging online...
Dec 18, 2020
MOODLE 3.9: Our team finished testing Moodle version 3.9 in early December and the new version will be installed on December 24. Version 3.9 is very similar to our current version of Moodle and you should notice only a few differences between the two versions. The...
Dec 16, 2020
As we hit a wall the 9-month mark of the Zoomification of the classroom, I have been reflecting on Marshall McLuhan’s prescient declaration: ‘the medium is the message.’* Writing in the sixties, McLuhan was concerned primarily with the visual broadcast (one-way)...
Nov 23, 2020
Instructors at NMC all know that we would be doomed without our amazing support team in the Educational Technologies department–especially since last March. They have answered all of our questions, walked us through new technologies, sympathized when we have...
