TELS Portfolio of Work

The 57 Second Blackboard Tips come out weekly on the YC portal and YouTube. These tips range from "click here to do that" tips to tips that address online learning and instruction in general.

TELS offers intensive multi-day workshops in the summer and winter. During the Summer and Winter Institutes TELS staff and faculty present workshops on topics ranging from learning styles to lecture capture, from blogging to interactive television instruction. Below is an example of the many workbooks TELS provides at the institutes and a few images from past institites.

Blackboard Basics

One way to personalize your online class is to add a custom banner to the course. TELS will make one for you with the information and graphics that fit your needs. Below are a few examples of our work. Click here to see a selection of banners we have made.

The TELS group is active in attending and presenting at educational conferences. We attend the events to learn and share our experiences and our understanding of the best approaches to integration of web based content, software and hardware, and instructional practices in education. Below is an example of some of the content we present.

Our Brown Bag Lunch Workshops offered each month provide an opportunity for faculty to come to the TELS offices and participate in hands on trainings on relevent content.

Creating video for the college, and assisting faculty in creating video is the purpose of our TELS Media Studio. The studio allows instructors to film using a green screen, create exceptional audio for podcasts and use in video, and receive personal training by our staff.

Creating instructional video is part of the service TELS offers the Yavapai College community. From Office products to Camtasia and other sophisticated software, TELS is always expanding our selection of video.

Part of our work at TELS involves remaining ahead of current trends and uses of available technologies. Web 2.0 potential and the continuing evolution of the web demand that we seek out and understand the technologies that may effect education in the future. This embedded Jing video is an example of one of those technologies.

The TELS Webletter is an ongoing project that highlights a few informative teaching articles each month in blog form. It is our hope to foster dialogue between faculty in an environment that nurtures new faculty and allows all faculty members to contribute to a learning community.

TELS uses Google Reader and the TELS Webletter to keep current articles on teaching and learning available quickly and easily to faculty.

TELS creates documentation for many of the college's technologies including the digital lecterns, the ITV classroom, and peripheral hardware.

TELS developed a new class for the college that was first offered in the summer of 2009 titled Fundamentals of Educational Technology. The class focuses on web 2.0 technology and uses in the classroom, for online college courses to the K12 environment.