Diana Laurillard's keynote
In anticipation of my fuller account of Diana Laurillard, let me just show you one of her slides on Conversational Framework. Try and decipher the slide as an exercise of multimodal interpretation :)
posted by Peppi Taalas at 1:27 pm
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Whatever happened to simple, "real-life" role-plays and simulations? I'm thinking of examples such as "A la rencontre de Philippe!.
Just a note to say that the complete presentation will be distributed later this afternoon for those of you who would like to see Diana in action.
Some quotes that i really enjoyed this morning from Diana:
"it's never enough to have that bottom up enthusiasm"...this is definitely relevant to me, i´m always there thinking this or that is great and really revved up (australianism???) and it´s great to get a bit pragmatic...
"we should have big ambitions"...indeed, why go through life/career limiting ourselves all the time?
"we have the technology but not the organisation and/or the research"...again, great to have this overarching perspective: it´s all there we just have to get working to make things happen...
Inspirational call to arms (sorry if the bellicose metaphor offends)!
In her opening speech, Diana Laurillard also gave an demonstration of LAMS (http://www.lamsfoundation.org/index.html), a tool for designing, managing and delivering online learning activities, providing teachers with their own authoring environment. It’s handy gathering all functions (chats, groupings etc) in one place where you don’t have to move in and out of different systems, downloading various programs. When moving on to the next seminar after the opening to (G3) Absalom and Rizzi also had an inspiring demonstration of their course concept, Tapping into the audio stream. Here, teachers need to be more active since there are a range of possible programs to choose from. We see two possibilities; using an LMS with a packet solution vs composing your own way of using programs.
Thanks Matthew and Linda for adding more information to this thread! We are still eagerly waiting for the recording to be put online. It should happen any moment now.
I have reservations about LAMS - or any type of VLE, CMS, learning platform or whatever the current fashionable term is for such systems. BECTA (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) is currently pushing LAMS - and anything that BECTA pushes is something that I always regard with suspicion.
Footnotes:
LAMS = Learning Activity Management System.
BECTA: http://www.becta.org.uk
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