Dual Credit Connection
October 2017
About Dual Credit Connection
Our first edition for Fall 2017 featured the Grit Initiatives at LSC-Tomball for Fall 2017.
When you finish reading the newsletter, please complete the survey at the end. This survey will let us know how you and your students are currently connecting with LSC-Tomball.
LSC Library Resources
We know that many Dual Credit instructors will use the library for research. While students are able to use the library databases, they will have to login using the barcode on the back of their LSC student ID/library card. If students do not have an ID, they can request a barcode online by going to this site. Students will receive their barcodes in their myLonestar email; however, if students do not check their MyLonestar email, they can forward the myLonestar emails to their personal email addresses by following these simple steps.
Instructions for forwarding MyLonestar email to personal email address.
- Log into your myLonestar account.
- Check the top left to make sure you're on your student tab.
NOTE: If you are only a student you will not have tabs. The current page will be your student page. - Scroll down to the Quicklinks.
- Choose Student email (second to the last option).
- A new page titled Outlook Web App will populate.
- Click on the wheel next to your name.
- Select Options.
- Select Connected accounts.
- Under the forwarding prompt, enter the email address you wish your student emails to be forwarded.
- Click Start forwarding. From this point forward you should receive all your student emails in the account you provided.
D2L Brightspace - Our Learning Management System
- Create an easy-to-export gradebook. Also, students can access and keep track of their grades.
- Create dropboxes for students to submit assignments electronically.
- Use turnitin.com for all work submitted to a dropbox.
- Upload all course materials so that students can review or prepare for class.
For a complete list of job aids and faculty who can assist during Fall 2017, go to our webpage and look for the D2L Faculty Support Group.
Weekly Grit/Growth Mindset Assignments
Universal Design for Learning
- Multiple Means of Representation - show the information you are teaching in different to meet the learning needs/styles of all students.
- Multiple Means of Action and Expression - provide options for students to express what they know.
- Multiple Means of Engagement - provide students with choices and challenges to help keep them engaged in learning.
Below is a quick video that explains UDL.
Technology and UDL
- Representation - Instead of delivering a lecture and using PowerPoint for your lecture notes, create a mini-lesson using this tool. Include images to help students better understand the content.
- Action and Expression - Use this as an option for students to express what they know. Students can use this to summarize/explain a concept that you have presented in class. This tool is also great for student projects. (Both of the student grit assignments above were created using Adobe Spark Video)
- Engagement - While students may not enjoy writing essays, they may enjoy putting together a video. Adobe Spark Video can provide a challenge because students will be limited in the number of words they can use; therefore, they will have to be concise and find the "perfect image" to relay the message.
To learn how to use Adobe Spark Video, there are several tutorials on YouTube.