Moodle Question Types – More than Multiple Choice

Moodle Question Types – More than Multiple Choice

We are working with an instructor to create a new online Geography course this fall.  As part of that process, I created a demo quiz that contains several different types of quiz questions that can be created in Moodle.  That’s right, Moodle can do more than...
Helping high schoolers: Tag team with high school counselors

Helping high schoolers: Tag team with high school counselors

Last spring at the beginning of the semester, one of my online Eng. 111 students wasn’t logging into Moodle or responding to my emails. If he didn’t get started soon, he’d be a week behind. I pulled his transcript, saw that he was a dual-enrolled student from...
How Wrong I Can Be

How Wrong I Can Be

It always starts on day one of classes when my first activity is for them to line up by birthday, irrespective of year. My objective is just to get them moving, interact some with each other, and to suggest that my courses are not very conventional. The process is...
40 Years as a NMC Student

40 Years as a NMC Student

We are committed to the lifetime of learning mantra.  I started taking classes at NMC in 1978, taking a BASIC computer programming class in the basement of Scholar’s Hall.  After 40 years, this is likely my final semester as a full-time student.  In 2008, I retired...
Walk for Health and Housing 2018

Walk for Health and Housing 2018

Tonight I will walk through areas of downtown Traverse City with my colleagues Lisa Blackford and Brandon Everest and we’ll be accompanied by about one hundred of our students from 5 different classes, their friends and family, and members of the community. We’ll be...