Re-launch of the Teacher Training Resource Bank August 2008 Using Research and Evidence to Improve Teaching and Learning Perspectives for Dr Cathy Lawrence UCET Nov 27th

What is the purpose of the TTRB? The purpose of the TTRB is to enable teacherTTRB educators, teachers in training and school based mentors and tutors to have free access to an extensive database of professional resources, with the aim of improving standards in teaching and learning.

TTRB Project Team 3T, Canterbury Christ Church University, Institute of Education, British Education Index Project management Academic Content Management E-Librarian Meta-tagging Jon Toothill: project director Brian Carman: project manager Mike Blamires: director of content & dissemination Sue Field / Cathy Lawrence: associate editors Project administrator Stephen Pickles: E-librarian director Karen Crinnion & Barbara Sakarya: E-librarians Phil Sheffield: BEI meta-tagging

Usage figures (independently gathered from google analytics) Over 124,000 page views a month Over 4,500 page views a day Over 1000 visits per day 16,000 Registered Users 37% trainees: 21% Tutors : 22% Teachers Users during October from UK 23,152, US 985, Australia 255, Canada 163, India 119, Ireland 118, Spain 116, Philippines 96, Malaysia 88, Germany 72, UAE 64, Singapore 59, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 56

Look & Feel: redesign of site following User Centred Design sessions Central Registration across TTRB, Behaviour4Learning & Multiverse : Manage your passport from one central point Improved Keyword search – ranking, linguistics, Boolean Advanced search – filter results by subject, phase etc Crumb Trail Resource Rating – rate how useful a resource is Browsing according to: Standards New Categories eg Personalisation, Whole School Resource Types eg Video, Research Reports My TTRB My Collections ing a folder Improvements to the site

Resources Policy documents News items Research reports Statistics Video Journal articles Glossary

Using the TTRB BrowsingLinks to our sister sites Search

Personalised Support Registration My TTRB collections to students or trainees

Any questions?

Policy documents

Research reports

Statistical Sets

Question and answer service for teacher education Response within 48 hoursResponse Answer will contain links to web-based resources including journals and education databases (e.g. British Education Index) Search methodology used by librarian provided Searchable bank of previously asked questions Users must register with TTRBregister