Forum Educational Support: LAMS Implementation Stages Table for educator PD

Lutheran Education Queensland has been working with LAMS in 12 trial schools since the middle of 2006. During this time over 1000 students are using LAMS, across several Primary and Secondary schools, involving well over 100 educators. LEQ Funds a LAMS Implementation Officer one day per week in term time to provide Professional Development and Account services. LEQ makes use of the hosting service provided by LAMS International in Sydney.

This Implementation Matrix was developed by Peter Kellett, the LEQ LAMS Officer and Head of IT at Grace Lutheran College in Brisbane. The structure of the table assists less confident teachers in scaffolding their LAMS implementation, making the initial process seem less daunting and improving teacher take-up.

The matrix breaks LAMS Sequence types into three levels, starting at an introductory Teacher to Student level (Level 1) and progressing to encompass the full collaborative potential that LAMS has to offer (Level 3).

Feel free to use this document to within your organizations Professional Development program and LAMS documentation. Feedback on it’s effectiveness would be most welcome.

Peter Kellett

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LEVEL 1: LAMS is deployed and used as an on-line resource portals for students. Students are able to log on and download valuable resources placed by the subject teacher anywhere anytime via the internet.

TOOLS USED:
NOTICEBOARD
SHARE RESCOURCES

INTERACTION:
TEACHER to STUDENT
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LEVEL 2A: LAMS is expanded to include further tools such as student group Question and Answer sessions, Surveys, class Voting and Multiple Choice sets.

TOOLS USED:
LEVEL 1 +
Q&A
SURVEYS
VOTING
MULTIPLE CHOICE

INTERACTION:
TEACHER to STUDENT
STUDENT to TEACHER
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LEVEL 2B: Further to LEVEL1, Students collaborate and communicate directly with each other directly via the Forums and Resource Sharing. This can either be performed in an anonymous or open manner with the class group.

TOOLS USED:
LEVEL 1 +
FORUM
ADD RESOURCES in SHARED RESOURCE OBJECTS

INTERACTION:
TEACHER to STUDENT
STUDENT to TEACHER
STUDENT to STUDENT
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LEVEL 3: Further to previous LEVELS, student submits work to the teacher for marking – teacher returns grade to student once marking is complete.

TOOLS USED:
LEVEL 1, 2A and/or 2B +
SUBMIT FILES

INTERACTION:
TEACHER to STUDENT
STUDENT to TEACHER
STUDENT to STUDENT
TEACHER to DATA FOLIO
DATA FOLIO to STUDENT
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This table in an easy to read MS-Word format is available via request from peter_kellett@glc.qld.edu.au.

Posted by Peter Kellett