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HARLAN’S LABOR OF LOVE The CALL of the Timberwolf - November 2020

HONORS COLLEGE

EXCELS
IN NEW NORMAL
What brought about the creation of

the D2L training series? Any especially interesting Since Honors classes have always

Kentrie LeDee Fontenot, Director of COTE, about one of them? been face to face, the move to a
hybrid format is new for LSC-Tomball
asked me to deliver some D2L training They are all topics that interest me! Honors College students and we’ve
for Faculty Return Week. She had been That’s the joy of developing your own taken significant steps to mitigate
asked by faculty to have the various sup- curriculum! That said, my favorite is the change. In response to the
port resources consolidated for them and “Designing For Disaster,” which has changes, we have implemented new
presented to them, a guidance she passed much more of my own professional Special Topics in Honors sections

on to me. They were initially only going to opinion in it than most of the others. to support our students, such as a
be four—one topic for each day of Faculty Portfolio Scholarship and Transfer
Return Week. But I wanted to enlarge the Care to add anything? class, as well as a Leadership
Development section. Our Honors
selections, so I made it two per day. College Leadership Coordinators have
I will be doing some more webinars
How did you come up in the coming months. Keep an eye created a Leadership Speaker Series,
for which they have invited speakers
with the topics? Harlan Williams out for them! from campus and the community to

I work for LSC-On- Online Instructional speak on issues related to leadership
in the workplace. We organized
line and there is an Designer & D2L Support a mentoring system for incoming
instructional design- honors students, so they have a way
er assigned to each of connecting to each other and
campus, and we communicate with each receiving support. The Honors faculty

other often. I initially polled my colleagues for LEARNING has stepped up and are doing an
ideas, which were primarily centered on D2L amazing job connecting with students
support. But I wanted to expand my training in an online learning environment.
The Honors College is still hosting
offerings, to go beyond the limits of just D2L, and include broader topics the same events, but workshops and
of instructional design. conference are virtual. Additionally,
the Undergraduate Research Day
How did you come up with the content? will be online, so presenters will also

Each webinar is a PowerPoint I’ve developed. These presentations are primarily receive additional training in delivering
based upon the job aids in the Virtual Teaching Assistance Center (VTAC) knowledge high quality virtual presentations.
base, albeit expanded and fleshed out with original research and experience.
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