Communicating Information Through Multiple Means

Communicating Information Through Multiple Means

Communicating information through multiple modalities (visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic) enables students to access information.  Learners differ in the ways that they perceive and comprehend information that is presented to them. For example, those with sensory...
Do you backchannel?

Do you backchannel?

Do you backchannel? When I attend professional conferences, I often participate in the conference backchannel using Twitter to tweet from the keynote presentation and the concurrent sessions that I attend. I will also follow the backchannel while I’m not in sessions...
December Friday Forum: LearningCommunities@NMC

December Friday Forum: LearningCommunities@NMC

This Friday,  come join your colleagues to investigate the new learning communities being sponsored by CIE.  Do you have a group that would love the time to collaborate, problem solve, laugh with colleagues?  The December 4th Friday Forum will provide an introductory...
Reading Your Colleagues: The 4×4 Challenge

Reading Your Colleagues: The 4×4 Challenge

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...
Book Review: Mindset

Book Review: Mindset

It’s been at least five years since I first read Carol Dweck’s Mindset, but it still informs many of my interactions with my students and my own children. This book has been around a while–you hear about it at conferences, we chose it as an NMC Reads...