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Just checking in? How have the economic forecasts affected your semester? Did anyone lose or gain courses? Anyone else worried about the status of Adjuncts? Continue

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Tip of the Week for Instructors Week 8 1. Mid-semester grades are very helpful for students. If you can let students know exactly how they are doing it can help them set goals for the rest of the semester. 2. Some MCTC instructors offered suggestions for questions you might add to the SIR II student evaluations that you may be giving later this semester: a. What parts of this course would you prefer to cover in more depth? b. What parts of the course do you believe should be eliminated? c. Do y… Continue

The Chronicle reported on a move by the University of Michigan to offer all of its out-of-copyright books for $10 per book through an ATM-like printer. Is this a positive move or not? What will become of our libraries? Read and post your opinions. http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3326/u-of-michigan-library-installs-atm-of-books?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en… Continue

I stumbled across a tool called IBreadcrumbs. This tool allows a single user or a group of users to compile a list of online resources on a particular research topic. Comments can be added to annotate the link. After completing and saving your search you can then download it as an Excel page to your computer. I downloaded the software and within five minutes I was able to see some ways to use this within my current courses. It would be great to have stu… Continue

Sponsored by MNscu CTL, this "tutorial" offers a lot of information to help you "get your stapler too." http://vfc15.project.mnscu.edu Continue

What used to be called "multi-culturalism" has now been expanded and in some ways re-vamped to be called "globalism." I often wonder if this is because the discussion of globalism is more attractive and upbeat or because we, in the United States think we have conquered the problems of equal access and treatment for all Americans. It's difficult to say, though I have noticed far more resources and interest in the globalism than in the issues of racism and bigotry into which discussions of multi-… Continue