Forum LAMS Newsletter: Newsletter 72, 25th Nov, 08

By: James Dalziel

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10 days to LAMS Conference & Additional Keynote

The 3rd International LAMS and Learning Design conference will be on December 5th at Macquarie University in Sydney - so if you plan to attend but haven't yet registered, please sign up soon at http://lams2008sydney.lamsfoundation.org/registration.htm
Basic and advanced training workshops are available on the 4th of December.

I'm pleased to announce an additional Keynote Speaker for the conference - Paul Gagnon from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore will be presenting on their experiences of large scale LAMS rollout over several years, and his thoughts for the future. Paul's keynote joins me, Diana Laurillard and a combined staff/student keynote from Leanne Cameron, Matthew Kearney and their students.

For general conference information, see
http://lams2008sydney.lamsfoundation.org/

LAMS V2.2 almost ready

We expect to release LAMS Version 2.2 at the conference - this latest version has many exciting new features and enhancements, including:
- Text-based branching
- Student selected groups
- Individual Gates (ie, Gates using Conditions to control individual progress)
- Learning Objective/Competency description and mapping to tools
...as well as *four* new activity tools:
- Wiki
- Data Collection
- Google Maps (GMap)
- Online Spreadsheet
For more details on these and many more features, see
http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/LAMS+2.2+Feature+List


Special Issue of TEwT Journal on LAMS & Learning Design - Call for Papers

The Journal of Teaching English with Technology (TEwT), IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group invites you to submit articles for a special edition on LAMS and Learning Design. The Journal is interested in all theoretical and practical articles (in any subject area) that help to draw light on some of the key threads in current LAMS and Learning Design literature. The Journal will also consider republication of articles or revised versions of articles that have appeared in past LAMS conferences. As the Journal’s special issue principally aims to offer a venue for the facilitation of academic discussion on LAMS/Learning Design, an open access approach will be adopted: authors of articles will be able to freely post their articles on other Internet sites if they so wish. Deadline for submission is March 1st 2009.

For more information, see
http://www.lamscommunity.org/dotlrn/clubs/educationalcommunity/lamsresearchdevelopment/forums/message-view?message%5fid=686304
or email Dr Chris Alexander alexander.c@unic.ac.cy


Role Play sequence updated to use Group Branching

Role plays are well suited to LAMS, and I've previously uploaded some examples to the LAMS Community, but these examples pre-dated Branching in V2.1. I've now revised the "Interactive Whiteboard Adoption" role play sequence to use the Group-based Branching features in V2.1 - it's available at
http://www.lamscommunity.org/lamscentral/sequence?seq%5fid=690433

Posted by James Dalziel