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LAMS Showcase

The LAMS Showcase day today was a fantastic day for learning about teaching and learning.  Key themes and speakers -

• MacICT - we talked about Student Authored Learning Sequences
• James Dalziel - talked about Northern Territory LAMS implementation
• Leanne Cameron - MELCOE
• Matthew Kearney UTS - teaching pedagogy to education students using LAMS
  

Things to think about:

• Getting students and teachers to use rubrics to assess the features of the learning experience
• When getting the kids to author learning experiences help them by providing a learning experience where everyone needs to add a little bit of information - collaboration
• There is lots of excitment around LAMS and how it helps us understand how to use new technologies within our current framework
• We need to have discussions about where the teachers role is in mediating learning
• We need to think more about the discussions about different learning styles/activities eg interaction.  This came up for us in the Student Authored LAMS project and also for the Student Teachers.
  

Great features we can look forward to:

• Instant messaging so that you can support students while they are in the activities
  
• Support activities - floating activities that are always present eg you could add a wiki that they add too all together, a mindmap or even a glossary
  
• HTML editor for questions so that you can put in different tools

Questions

• Are there any plans to create more open social spaces outside of the tradition 'sequence'?
• When will we get LAMS 2.3?
  

Tags: learning student authoring macict teaching lams
Posted at 04:43PM Jun 17, 2009 by Concetta Gotlieb  | 

Open Education Teaching Ideas

I attended the Open Education 2008 Conference at Macquarie University yesterday.  It was great because of the people, everyone was excited about teaching, learning and sharing.

What is openness?

• Open education is providing people with an infrastructure to be able to collaborate freely
• Open education is sharing teaching resources
• Open education is using software in education that has been created by volunteers working collaboratively
  
• For those responsible for organising and paying for things open = cheaper and better quality
  

Teaching ideas from the conference:

• Use Open Office (download free) the next time I get the kids to create a text document.
• Use the Smart Copying interactive tool All Right to Copy to explain copyright to the kids. Particularly interesting that you can't enter your work in a competition if you breach copyright. You can also contact them if you have a question about copyright.
• Read about and sign the Cape Town Declaration
• Share your ideas - on a blog like this one, or in a community space like this one created for the Open Education event, you can add resources, teaching ideas or thoughts.
• Play Murder Under The Microscope - an environmental education multiplayer game created by the NSW DET that is available for anyone globally to participate in
• Many Aussie institutions have provided resources that you can freely use.  For example the National Film Archive or the National Library of Australia, you can even contribute to the NLA's Picture Australia project.
• Creative commons licences allow media creators to tell you whether they want you to reuse their material.  Support Australian Creative Commons, appropriate CC resources are the backbone of quality multimedia creation.
• Use the Open Education Resources website provides lots free to use and sometimes change teaching aides and lesson plans.
• Learn more about free and easy to use software by coming along to the 2 day professional development extravaganza at Macquarie uni.
• Setting up blogs with students is also a good way for you and your students to understand the power of open software - community, easy of use and engagement.
  

Great me.edu.au people I met:

• Chris Chescher - his tweets for the day
• Debbie Evans
• Roland Gesthuizen
• Kathryn Moyle 

Tags: learning teaching ideas aks-oss macquarie ict innovation centre professional development collaboration open
Posted at 11:36AM Nov 22, 2008 by Concetta Gotlieb  |  Comments[1]

Christmas Carnival of Learning

I've been inspired by different online festivals such as the Student Blogging Challenge, the Comment Challenge, the Digital Storytelling Carnival and other educational community building activities to use an event to inspire sharing and communication.  Christmas is a great time for having fun, sharing and finding cool resources. Let's help each other and our students use Web2.0 tools and our online communities to really connect with each other this Christmas.

You can upload or share your links using your existing blog or you can create a teaching blog here at me.edu.au or a student blog using edublogs.  Then add your links to the Christmas Resources community.  By adding the Christmas community to your profile you'll be able to see whenever new things are adding just by looking at your profile.  You can also tag your Christmas stuff in delicious or Diigo with Christmas and add your feed to your me.edu.au profile.

Activity ideas:

• Create a Christmas animation that other students can use or copy from using GoAnimate Post links to any cool animations on your blog or in the Christmas community.
  
• Get students to create a Christmas game in Scratch
  
• Send a school in a different state a Christmas message using email
  
• Get your students to create an end of year video message about what they've learnt this year.  Upload it to Blip.tv or Teachertube and share it on your blog or in the Christmas community.
  
• Get your students to create a video to send overseas at Christmas telling them about Australia.  Upload it to Blip.tv or Teachertube and share it on your blog or in the Christmas community.
• Look at Christmas in other cultures using ...
• Participate in a Christmas web-quest
  
• Share songs you like to play at Christmas on your blog or make a playlist to embed in yoru blog
  
• Christmas craft ideas - upload your pictures to Flickr when completed.  You can also use flickr.com groups to get ideas.  Check out this Christmas Gift Project group.
  
• Helping other people at Christmas time.  Improve your vocabularly and give people rice at Christmas by playing this game.
  
• Write a Blog posts for Santa.  I might even set up a Santa blog to reply if there is some interest.
  
• Find favourite Christmas foods and recipe videos or post recipes on your blog.
• Find blogs or information about other things that are going on in the world at this time of the year.
  
• I'll be adding more to the Christmas community as I find things.
  

There are lots of other ways of sharing, posting ideas on Twitter, Edublogs or any of the other Educational communities around.  Or you can just add a comment on this blog.

Christmas is an awesome time for using technology that helps us communicate with each other let's really make the most of it.

Tags: video blogs coi community christmas carnival ict integration showme sharing ideas technology learning resources collaboration edublogs
Posted at 01:05PM Oct 26, 2008 by Concetta Gotlieb  |  Comments[1]