Tea Lab

T-Lab

Teaching Laboratory

Oxford Brookes University4 October 2013

Welcome to Tea Lab

• Teaching laboratory• Your space• Informal and occasional gathering of people at

Brookes who are interested in contemporary learning and teaching practice.

• All welcome• Cake

Communication

Web space• http://ocsld.brookesblogs.net/tag/tealab/

Twitter• https://twitter.com/TeaLabBrookes

Google Group, Google +, Facebook, Moodle• Coming soon

Virtual Classroom

Wimba Classroom• Experimental – will be evolving• Simulcast & Recording• Virtual cake only– http://brookesacuk.wimba.com/

launcher.cgi?room=_moodle_16508734960256

Or– http://bit.ly/TeaLabClassroom

Meetings

Calendar of events in Google Calendar• http://ocsld.brookesblogs.net/2013/10/03/tea

-lab-calendar-of-events/

• Friday 4 October 1200-1330 Boardroom 1• Thursday 7 November 1200-1330 Gibbs 3.01• Wednesday 27 November 1300-1500 SG05

Meaningful midterm module feedback

• Not the NSS!

• Implement meaningful light-weight feedback techniques to gain information from students on their learning, their engagement and satisfaction with teaching on modules.

How might you use this in your context?

What are the advantages for you?

More ideas?• Post them here; Tag them “feedback”– http://teachingpractices.openbrookes.net/

Where next

• Your agenda

• Two more meetings this semester– Thursday 7 November 1200 G3.01– Wednesday 27 November 1300 SG05

• Four meetings next semester– What do you want to experiment with?

• Visualisers? Whiteboards? Tech-free spaces?• JHBB NLTB if possible

And finally: Tea Lab

• Stop?

• Start?

• Continue?

THANK YOU

Contact t-lab@brookes.ac.uk

Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development