Session/artifact to be observed/reviewed: Class Lecture Recording
Size of student group: 10
Observer: Jess Ball
Observee: Kayalvizhi Jayavel
Kayal’s Answers:
What is the context of this session/artifact within the curriculum? The context was introducing the students about Tableau a Visualization tool through examples. And also explain important underlying concepts such as Data Model, Relationships, Joins and Unions
How long have you been working with this group and in what capacity? These are students from M.Sc Data Science and AI. I am working with them since October as Unit leader (Tutor) and this is my second Unit “Critical Data Representation and Analysis” with them.
What are the intended or expected learning outcomes? Expected Learning outcomes are 1. Get introduced to Tableau as a visualization tool 2. Understand Data models, Relationships, Join and Union 3. Understand how to make the necessary settings for Performance optimization 4. Inspire from the real life case studies and adopt few in to their Final assessment task
What are the anticipated outputs (anything students will make/do)? The student would be expected to use Tableau and apply the learning on any given dataset to achieve improved performance
Are there potential difficulties or specific areas of concern? Some of the students are not from Computer Science background, so challenges exist when introducing terms related to data models like Cardinality, Referential Integrity etc.,
How will students be informed of the observation/review? The students knew that I am a student of PgCert and this task is part of it.
What would you particularly like feedback on? I am welcome feedback of any kind, as I strongly believe they will drive me to improve things which may be my blind spots
How will feedback be exchanged? We will have a meeting on Teams to get this done
My Feedback
- Gave a good, clear plan for the day- providing useful links and resources
- Giving an idea of what is to come and things to look forward to- guest speaker
- Asking if it makes sense to the students- checking in with them
- Good hand gestures- backs up what you’re saying with a visual cue.
- Passion and enthusiasm for the subject
- Contents of recording is very helpful- is this something you must set up manually on Panoptu
- Quite a lot of text on the slides- change to keywords- some students could find this overwhelming
- Could you actively show them Tableau instead of just screenshots sometimes? Maybe this can be done later in the class?
- The presentation could be slightly more engaging. – slides all look similar – to break up the session
I found observing Kayal very helpful. Even though we teach very different subject matter, I picked up on a few teaching techniques I’d like to adopt. A big takeaway from the observation was being introduced to Panoptu as a teaching software. I had never seen or used this before and I thought it worked really well for combining a presentation, learning software (screen sharing), and engaging with the students by having your face on the screen. I thought the addition of a contents section works well so the students can look back at particular information and see what’s to come in the class in bite-size pieces.