Hello and welcome back!

It was great to see everyone in today’s training sessions for D2L and Web Accessibility! We conduct individual training sessions with you, just email Kathy Grady, kgrady@nhcc.edu or me ssteinke@nhcc.edu and we will schedule an individual appointment. We have evening hours available too!

If you don’t see the Online Teaching Best Practices Sharehouse resource course in your D2L, email one of us and we will get you into the Sharehouse. Feel free to add rubrics and other great teaching and learning examples so we can all benefit from this resource! Follow the discussions in the course too! Add a discussion too!

Upcoming Training: September 9 from 2:30-5:30 PM in ES 116.

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It was great to see everyone again and let us know how we can serve you best!

Bullies and Professors

I am hearing of more of these instances, even on our campus, of bullies and professors.

Upcoming D2L Training

The countdown to the start of the new semester is on! Next week on August 9 and 10 we will great new faculty with Jane. eFolio World Summit is on August 12--Can't wait! That conference is always good. August 18 is the next D2L and Web Content Accessibility Training from 1-2:30 pm in ES 116. See you then.

Just in Time training sessions are being scheduled now and will be posted for the first two weeks in September.

Microsoft and Nasa

"Imagine having the ability to take a virtual tour of the cosmos from your living room. Not just a flat, two dimensional tour, but an experience so engrossing that you have the ability to see the entire sky at once then zoom into detailed views of distant galaxies. The Terapixel project from Microsoft Research makes all of that possible, by creating the largest and clearest image of the night sky ever produced—a terapixel image, now available in the WorldWide Telescope and Bing Maps." 


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Universal instructional design principles for Moodle | Elias | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Universal instructional design principles for Moodle Elias The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Three generations of distance education pedagogy | Anderson | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Three generations of distance education pedagogy Anderson The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

If you have been searching for a presentation discussing the pedagogies of distance education, then this is the presentation for you!

Faculty Member Lauded for Online Course Approach - UT Dallas News

Faculty Member Lauded for Online Course Approach - UT Dallas News

Here is an article about a faculty member who is using her experience from her online degree to make her online courses more interactive and engaging. It would be great if we, as a system, had a System Innovations In Online award and sharing event. What a great opportunity to see what others are doing well and look at incorporating those ideas into our own online courses!! Happy Summer!