Services

The Teaching Enhancement Center (TEC) provides a variety of services to aid teachers in preparing resources to use in their classrooms.

Checkout Equipment

TEC has various kinds of equipment that you can check out to use on and/or off campus. Please see the list of available equipment for check out and contact us to reserve them.

• Check Out / Reservation: Priorities

Interactive Television Room (ITV)

The ITV through use of the television and other equipment allows instructors and students to interact together from different sites. This allows for real time communication where you are in a face to face environment.

• ITV Operation System's Chart and Instructions for ITV use
  • Operation Systems Chart
  • Turning On and Off: the ITV Equipment and the ITV System
  • Login to Instructor Station and Using Students' and Portable Instructor's Microphones
  • Operating Cameras, using the Digital Camera (ELMO), and Notes
• Equipment used in room
• ITV Contacts
• ITV Problem Report Form

Professional Development

The TEC provides professional development opportunities and resources through:

• Workshops
• Seminars
• Presentations
• Small group/One-on-one training sessions

The following are a few of our regular offerings:

• Classroom Assessment Techniques
• Creating or Updating Your Syllabus
• Enhancing Your Teaching With the SMARTBoard
• Using a Digital Camera and Camcorder for Your Classroom
• Introduction to Macromedia Dreamweaver for Web Design

For a full list of our professional development opportunities, please refer to MCC's professional development web page.

Web-based Learning

The TEC can help you integrate use of the course management, plagiarism prevention, course content interactive, and content development tools into your course. We can get you started with:

• Blackboard
• Respondus
• SafeAssign
• SoftChalk

We can also help you design your own personal web page, so students can see your class schedule, office hours, syllabi, and assignments.

Multimedia Presentations

Whether it's a simple PowerPoint presentation or a how-to video, the TEC staff can help. We are experiences with a variety of multimedia hardware and software to create movies, sounds, presentations, and more to liven up your classroom.