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  • 1.  help in labelling a classroom

    Posted 05-09-2007 19:59
    Hello, everyone.
     
    Sorry to trouble you with a rather mundane question.
     
    Our School is moving into a new building.  There is a room which holds about 50 students, and instructors will be able to re-arrange the tables and chairs to accommodate special teaching sessions, do exercises etc.  We are trying to find an appropriate name/label for it.  Do your universities have special labels/names for such rooms?  We have previously used  "break-out room", "syndicate room", and someone has suggested "Teaching Room - Flex Seating".  Not the best, I think.  Any suggestions will be appreciated.
     
    Natalie
     
     
    Natalie Lam, Ph.D.
    School of Management
    University of Ottawa
    136 Jean-Jacques Lussier
    Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
    Canada
    613 562-5800 ext. 4760



  • 2.  help in labelling a classroom

    Posted 05-09-2007 20:27
    If you want to have fun with this, hold a "name that room" contest.  Invite students, faculty, whoever, to submit names by a given date, then a few representatives from each group gets together and chooses the winner.  The person who submits the winning name gets something, like the first slice of pizza when you christen the room.
     
    Or you could just give it a boring name like most schools.
     
     
    Larry Pate
    Redondo Beach, California
     
     
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Management Education and Development Discussion [mailto:MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lam, Natalie
    Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:59 PM
    To: MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: help in labelling a classroom

    Hello, everyone.
     
    Sorry to trouble you with a rather mundane question.
     
    Our School is moving into a new building.  There is a room which holds about 50 students, and instructors will be able to re-arrange the tables and chairs to accommodate special teaching sessions, do exercises etc.  We are trying to find an appropriate name/label for it.  Do your universities have special labels/names for such rooms?  We have previously used  "break-out room", "syndicate room", and someone has suggested "Teaching Room - Flex Seating".  Not the best, I think.  Any suggestions will be appreciated.
     
    Natalie
     
     
    Natalie Lam, Ph.D.
    School of Management
    University of Ottawa
    136 Jean-Jacques Lussier
    Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
    Canada
    613 562-5800 ext. 4760


  • 3.  help in labelling a classroom

    Posted 05-09-2007 22:37
    Hi, Natalie:

    How about the 1837 room?  That might challenge your students to delve into the chaos of the Rebellion of 1837, with its many radical ideas for alternative forms of organization...

    Or maybe someone would sponsor the de Bono Room?  Use six-colored furniture to suggest the alternatives of the Six Thinking Hats...  

    Or perhaps the House of Commons Room, with multiple parties and frequent re-arrangement of the positions of the participants...  

    Ouch, my cheek is hurting...  LOL!

    A little more seriously, How about the Innovation Room?  

    Tom.


    Dr. Tom Bryant, Executive Director
    Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
    Rohrer Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies
    Rohrer College of Business, Rowan University
    Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
    (856) 256-4126;  e-mail:  bryant@rowan.edu

    On May 9, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Lam, Natalie wrote:

    Hello, everyone.
     
    Sorry to trouble you with a rather mundane question.
     
    Our School is moving into a new building.  There is a room which holds about 50 students, and instructors will be able to re-arrange the tables and chairs to accommodate special teaching sessions, do exercises etc.  We are trying to find an appropriate name/label for it.  Do your universities have special labels/names for such rooms?  We have previously used  "break-out room", "syndicate room", and someone has suggested "Teaching Room - Flex Seating".  Not the best, I think.  Any suggestions will be appreciated.
     
    Natalie
     
     
    Natalie Lam, Ph.D.
    School of Management
    University of Ottawa
    136 Jean-Jacques Lussier
    Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
    Canada
    613 562-5800 ext. 4760





  • 4.  help in labelling a classroom

    Posted 05-10-2007 03:08
    Hi Natalie
    How about 'Learning Space"?
    all our facilities  are as you describe - we have no tiered or fixed furniture spaces any more - yet  still call them classrooms! So "Learning Space" may start a trend!
    Regards
    EL



    Tom Bryant wrote:
    Hi, Natalie:

    How about the 1837 room?  That might challenge your students to delve into the chaos of the Rebellion of 1837, with its many radical ideas for alternative forms of organization...

    Or maybe someone would sponsor the de Bono Room?  Use six-colored furniture to suggest the alternatives of the Six Thinking Hats...  

    Or perhaps the House of Commons Room, with multiple parties and frequent re-arrangement of the positions of the participants...  

    Ouch, my cheek is hurting...  LOL!

    A little more seriously, How about the Innovation Room?  

    Tom.


    Dr. Tom Bryant, Executive Director
    Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
    Rohrer Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies
    Rohrer College of Business, Rowan University
    Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
    (856) 256-4126;  e-mail:  bryant@rowan.edu

    On May 9, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Lam, Natalie wrote:

    Hello, everyone.
     
    Sorry to trouble you with a rather mundane question.
     
    Our School is moving into a new building.  There is a room which holds about 50 students, and instructors will be able to re-arrange the tables and chairs to accommodate special teaching sessions, do exercises etc.  We are trying to find an appropriate name/label for it.  Do your universities have special labels/names for such rooms?  We have previously used  "break-out room", "syndicate room", and someone has suggested "Teaching Room - Flex Seating".  Not the best, I think.  Any suggestions will be appreciated.
     
    Natalie
     
     
    Natalie Lam, Ph.D.
    School of Management
    University of Ottawa
    136 Jean-Jacques Lussier
    Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
    Canada
    613 562-5800 ext. 4760





  • 5.  help in labelling a classroom

    Posted 05-10-2007 03:51
    From a highschool back of the beyond:

    How about MonoRoom, Manage Room, or The Box.

    Padmanabha

    ----
    Padmanabha Rao
    aditi.edu.in



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    From: Management Education and Development Discussion on behalf of Tom Bryant
    Sent: Thu 10-May-07 08:06
    To: MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Re: help in labelling a classroom


    Hi, Natalie:

    How about the 1837 room? That might challenge your students to delve into the chaos of the Rebellion of 1837, with its many radical ideas for alternative forms of organization...

    Or maybe someone would sponsor the de Bono Room? Use six-colored furniture to suggest the alternatives of the Six Thinking Hats...

    Or perhaps the House of Commons Room, with multiple parties and frequent re-arrangement of the positions of the participants...

    Ouch, my cheek is hurting... LOL!

    A little more seriously, How about the Innovation Room?

    Tom.


    Dr. Tom Bryant, Executive Director
    Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
    Rohrer Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies
    Rohrer College of Business, Rowan University
    Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
    (856) 256-4126; e-mail: bryant@rowan.edu



    On May 9, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Lam, Natalie wrote:



    Hello, everyone.

    Sorry to trouble you with a rather mundane question.

    Our School is moving into a new building. There is a room which holds about 50 students, and instructors will be able to re-arrange the tables and chairs to accommodate special teaching sessions, do exercises etc. We are trying to find an appropriate name/label for it. Do your universities have special labels/names for such rooms? We have previously used "break-out room", "syndicate room", and someone has suggested "Teaching Room - Flex Seating". Not the best, I think. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

    Natalie


    Natalie Lam, Ph.D.
    School of Management
    University of Ottawa
    136 Jean-Jacques Lussier
    Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
    Canada
    lam@management.uottawa.ca <mailto:lam@management.uottawa.ca>
    613 562-5800 ext. 4760



  • 6.  help in labelling a classroom

    Posted 05-10-2007 07:06

    On a slightly flippant note, I attended a residential course at Schumacher College in Devon recently, and their bar is called 'Edge of Chaos' !!!

     

    Steve

     

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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Management Education and Development Discussion [mailto:MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Bryant
    Sent: 10 May 2007 03:37
    To: MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Re: help in labelling a classroom

     

    Hi, Natalie:

     

    How about the 1837 room?  That might challenge your students to delve into the chaos of the Rebellion of 1837, with its many radical ideas for alternative forms of organization...

     

    Or maybe someone would sponsor the de Bono Room?  Use six-colored furniture to suggest the alternatives of the Six Thinking Hats...  

     

    Or perhaps the House of Commons Room, with multiple parties and frequent re-arrangement of the positions of the participants...  

     

    Ouch, my cheek is hurting...  LOL!

     

    A little more seriously, How about the Innovation Room?  

     

    Tom.

     

     

    Dr. Tom Bryant, Executive Director

    Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship

    Rohrer Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies

    Rohrer College of Business, Rowan University

    Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA

    (856) 256-4126;  e-mail:  bryant@rowan.edu

     



     

    On May 9, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Lam, Natalie wrote:



    Hello, everyone.

     

    Sorry to trouble you with a rather mundane question.

     

    Our School is moving into a new building.  There is a room which holds about 50 students, and instructors will be able to re-arrange the tables and chairs to accommodate special teaching sessions, do exercises etc.  We are trying to find an appropriate name/label for it.  Do your universities have special labels/names for such rooms?  We have previously used  "break-out room", "syndicate room", and someone has suggested "Teaching Room - Flex Seating".  Not the best, I think.  Any suggestions will be appreciated.

     

    Natalie

     

     

    Natalie Lam, Ph.D.

    School of Management

    University of Ottawa

    136 Jean-Jacques Lussier

    Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5

    Canada

    613 562-5800 ext. 4760

     



     



  • 7.  help in labelling a classroom

    Posted 05-10-2007 15:54
    In theatre, such a flexible space is frequently referred to as a "black box."   The obvious pun is intended here!


    Prof. John Stephan
    355 Dyson Center
    School of Management
    Marist College
    Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
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