Mobile Lab

Please note:  booking the mobile lab does NOT book a room. Unless you are booking the lab for one of your regularly scheduled classes, you will need to have a confirmed room booking before contacting Office of Interdisciplinary Studies to book the lab. (see Mobile Lab Calendar)

Writing Studies (WRS) has overseen the development of a new mobile computer lab for use in WRS and writing-intensive classes. It can be booked through OIS (see details below). Instructors using the lab are responsible for its security until they sign it back in at OIS or sign it over to the next instructor (if the lab is booked back-to-back, the instructors involved need to coordinate its secure and timely transfer).

If you would like some training or have questions regarding the mobile lab, you can contact Melania Ruaini by email at mruaini@ualberta.ca or by phone (780) 492-4272

BOOKING THE LAB:
Check the Mobile Lab calendar below before attempting to book a lab. Please include the following information when you email OIS to request a booking:

  • Instructor Name
  • Department/Program  
  • Requested Date(s)
  • Start and end time
  • Building and Room Number (the Mobile Lab can be used in the Humanities Centre, Business, or Tory only)
  • Course Prefix, Number, and Title (or Name of Workshop)
  • Estimated Number of Students/Workshop Participants
  • Activity Description
  • Contact E-mail Address
  • Contact Phone Number(s)

 

If two instructors want to book the lab for the same day & time, the following priority for booking applies:

  1. Regularly scheduled Writing Studies (WRS) classes 
  2. Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) workshops and Centre for Writer (C4W) workshops
  3. Regularly scheduled OIS classes (priority given to class sessions involving writing)
  4. Regularly scheduled WRITE classes
  5. Regularly scheduled EFS (English and Film Studies) classes (priority given to first-year English)
  6. Regularly scheduled classes involving writing in any other department in the Faculty of Arts
  7. Faculty and staff development workshops involving writing.

Lab specifications:

  • 32 MAC laptops
  • Duplex printer (instructors must supply paper)
  • One projector (no screen)
  • Movable cart for storing and recharging laptops
  • Software: includes MS Word, Editor, Crossover (allows the running of PC software)