Within the TLTC Facility, faculty and staff will find the resources necessary to accomplish any of the tasks below:

    1. Video Editing

• Learn how to edit your own videos or recorded classroom sessions and activities.
• Learn how to utilize camcorders and video equipment for classroom sessions and activities.
• Create multimedia projects to enhance student participation via: Posting video to Blackboard, compiling students' entire semester work and projects, recording teaching sessions for absent students.
• Learn how to use video editing software- iMovie, Final Cut Pro, and iDVD (on the Mac) and MovieMaker, Camtasia Studio, and Ulead Studio (on the PC).
• Learn how to use audio editing software- Sound Forge and Sonic Foundry.

    2. Photo Editing

• Learn how to modify photos and create unique art and designs.
• Learn how to use digital cameras and other still photo equipment.
• Learn how to use a scanner to scan in photographs as well as other types of documents.
• Create multimedia projects to enhance student participation via: Slideshows, Large format posters, powerpoint presentations, posting photos on Blackboard, Ehancing websites, Charts, graphs, and diagrams
• Interactive CDs and DVDs
• Utilize Clip Art Galleries
• Learn how to use photo editing software- Photoshop Elements and Photoshop CS

    3. Productivity Software

• Microsoft Office- Create unique PowerPoint presentations, Word documents for various handouts, and utilize Excel
• Create PDFs with Adobe Acrobat
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

    4. Blackboard

• Learn how to organize classroom materials
• Learn how to upload documents and create tests and quizzes
• Post assignments, comments, discussion questions, and announcements, and video and audio files
• Enroll and remove users and students
• Learn how to utilize Gradebook
• Learn how to setup an online course
• Learn how to enhance Blackboard and online classroom work with Soft Chalk: a powerful web lesson editor that lets you easily create engaging, interactive web lessons, makes classroom experience more interactive, create interactive tests, quizzes, and games, easily incorporate Soft Chalk lessong into Blackboard

    5. SmartBoard

• Interact with the computer screen through projection in a classroom.
• Annotate, draw, mark, highlightand spotlight on the screen with a stylus to indicate important information to the students