Robin was the main presenter on Friday re the Te Reo Project.
There were 25 attendees from tertiary to schooling and one New Zealander Mark Brown form Massey Uni.
The presentation went really well and there were plenty of questions especially from schools with Aboriginal children about the thinking behind full immersion schools.
I presented the work around the VLN and how it could be a vehicle for coordination, brokerage, information etc for New Zealand schools in giving an environment for the where to from here after the ICT skills etc are developing in schools and the scaling of the expertise.
I think it was very useful in developing thinking in Australia about the coordination and logical movement from skills to moving work outside of the classroom walls.
After the presentation we were invited to a meeting at the Innovation Centre where we talked about some work going on around the Ronald MacDonald houses and the roll out of Video conferencing and Electronic boards across NSW.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Rest of LAMS Conference
Thursday and Friday
The workshop on Thursday was invaluable in seeing what new functionality is available in LAMS.
My Computer went belly up Thursday and Friday, Blue screen scary stuff.
Not sure why but seems to be working OK today, will keep fingers crossed
The Workshops I attended to be honest were underwhelming and I don't think worth reporting.
I will however relate the useful people and conversations I had as well as our own presentation.
The first Key note was really discussing the fact that a lot of tertiary people do not have a teaching training background and therefore have a number of gaps in the way they communicate in an educational setting. The key note was about what systems and arguments can be given to change this fact. Not really relevant for what we are doing. LAMS was of course said to be one of the most sophisticated tools that will help change some of these issues.
The second Keynote involved two teacher educators and their teacher trainees and their use of LAMS.
It was useful to see the process they went through as part of the program to see how they had developed their sequences.
However there was one flaw. They had not actually used this in a teaching context with students.
The sequences appeared to long to me and the advantage in making them shorter with more reflective breaks would have been great.
The very first breakout was probably the best:
Debbie Evans from the innovation Centre at Macquarie University’s E-Learning Centre Of Excellence. The NSW LAMS server had as of that day
103 groups and 3223 users. As explained some were heavy users and others weren't.
Debbie outlined the support they gave at the centre and also in the schools.
They are employees of the NSW Govt but have three year renewable contracts to offer innovation and PD.
To be frank I am not even going to mention the other breakouts as they were not really what I was looking for in showing in depth support an developments of LAMS sequences.
It was good to hear in casual conversations that people were using LAMS to reevaluate their own teaching practices and re think their teaching practices.
The workshop on Thursday was invaluable in seeing what new functionality is available in LAMS.
My Computer went belly up Thursday and Friday, Blue screen scary stuff.
Not sure why but seems to be working OK today, will keep fingers crossed
The Workshops I attended to be honest were underwhelming and I don't think worth reporting.
I will however relate the useful people and conversations I had as well as our own presentation.
The first Key note was really discussing the fact that a lot of tertiary people do not have a teaching training background and therefore have a number of gaps in the way they communicate in an educational setting. The key note was about what systems and arguments can be given to change this fact. Not really relevant for what we are doing. LAMS was of course said to be one of the most sophisticated tools that will help change some of these issues.
The second Keynote involved two teacher educators and their teacher trainees and their use of LAMS.
It was useful to see the process they went through as part of the program to see how they had developed their sequences.
However there was one flaw. They had not actually used this in a teaching context with students.
The sequences appeared to long to me and the advantage in making them shorter with more reflective breaks would have been great.
The very first breakout was probably the best:
Debbie Evans from the innovation Centre at Macquarie University’s E-Learning Centre Of Excellence. The NSW LAMS server had as of that day
103 groups and 3223 users. As explained some were heavy users and others weren't.
Debbie outlined the support they gave at the centre and also in the schools.
They are employees of the NSW Govt but have three year renewable contracts to offer innovation and PD.
To be frank I am not even going to mention the other breakouts as they were not really what I was looking for in showing in depth support an developments of LAMS sequences.
It was good to hear in casual conversations that people were using LAMS to reevaluate their own teaching practices and re think their teaching practices.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Stuff we were covering that is of interest:
I am writing random thoughts as they arise during the workshop
http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/LAMS+2.2+Feature+List#LAMS2.2FeatureList-NewFeatures
More detailed info that you may be interested in about LAMS can be found at
http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/Home
Lams Community has loads of shared sequences at this link
http://www.lamscommunity.org/register/?return_url=%2fdotlrn%2findex
You will need a user name and password to get there
http://moodle.lamscommunity.org/moodle/index.php
here is my link for log in to the moodle lams integration site
Talked to James who has been working with Ernie from (Moodle)
Over the next year All Moodle tools will be available in LAMS and vice versa so what to do? Call it LAMSMOODLE?
As well as a number of other applications like Google maps will have a drag and drop interface and be made available in the LAMS environment.
What would I would suggest now goodness this is possible to do either all in Moodle or all in LAMS?
I think the interface of LAMS suites our schooling sector.
So I would suggest we have both options but being well aware of the two environments and using what is best for their needs. But real consideration for the pedagogical impacts and how they address PD and Learning Deisgn.
A new overlay being developed will have templates that will help and the link to this demonstration is at this link. A very smart development.
http://saturn.melcoe.mq.edu.au/jly/Ped_planner.htm
I am writing random thoughts as they arise during the workshop
- Competencies can now be created in LAMS and mapped onto activities nice. What are the SMS implications here?
- There is a who is online feature as well in LAMS
- Each Sequence has a specific URL now but you need to be logged in as LAMS keeps a record of your learning
- In monitoring teacher can enter any chat live and get it back on track
- Dim Dim is another feature but it has 2 versions one open source which has questionable functionality and a pay for one so discussions with other people will continue.
- There is a who is online feature as well in LAMS
- Each Sequence has a specific URL now but you need to be logged in as LAMS keeps a record of your learning.
- In monitoring teacher can enter any chat live and get it back on track.
- A new feature called conditions makes it possible to customise the sequences for specific outcomes. A very nice feature that would need a bit of use to get your head around it.
- Google maps
- Wiki
http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/LAMS+2.2+Feature+List#LAMS2.2FeatureList-NewFeatures
More detailed info that you may be interested in about LAMS can be found at
http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/Home
Lams Community has loads of shared sequences at this link
http://www.lamscommunity.org/register/?return_url=%2fdotlrn%2findex
You will need a user name and password to get there
http://moodle.lamscommunity.org/moodle/index.php
here is my link for log in to the moodle lams integration site
Talked to James who has been working with Ernie from (Moodle)
Over the next year All Moodle tools will be available in LAMS and vice versa so what to do? Call it LAMSMOODLE?
As well as a number of other applications like Google maps will have a drag and drop interface and be made available in the LAMS environment.
What would I would suggest now goodness this is possible to do either all in Moodle or all in LAMS?
I think the interface of LAMS suites our schooling sector.
So I would suggest we have both options but being well aware of the two environments and using what is best for their needs. But real consideration for the pedagogical impacts and how they address PD and Learning Deisgn.
A new overlay being developed will have templates that will help and the link to this demonstration is at this link. A very smart development.
http://saturn.melcoe.mq.edu.au/jly/Ped_planner.htm
Wow what a long time since I have been doing this will try to do better
In Sydney at the LAMS advanced workshop will be talking to James about scalability options and the work that is happening between LAMS and Moodle.
http://moodle.lamscommunity.org/moodle/
There are 19 people here and three from different Departments of Ed in Aussie.
Will catch up with them if I get a chance.
The integration of the drop and drag functionality will be awesome if it happens.
Will be talking to James at lunch and at the end of the day as to where they are up too with this.
http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org this link is too all the documentation you will need
You will need to create a user name and password. Well worth a look here
In Sydney at the LAMS advanced workshop will be talking to James about scalability options and the work that is happening between LAMS and Moodle.
http://moodle.lamscommunity.org/moodle/
There are 19 people here and three from different Departments of Ed in Aussie.
Will catch up with them if I get a chance.
The integration of the drop and drag functionality will be awesome if it happens.
Will be talking to James at lunch and at the end of the day as to where they are up too with this.
http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org this link is too all the documentation you will need
You will need to create a user name and password. Well worth a look here
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