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In response to 1 05/20/06 08:09 PM
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I am studying Learning Design at Macquarie, with James Dalziel , I have never run a LAMS sequence or used one in the classroom. My area of interest is in using LAMs to document lesson plans (learning designs) but always having the option to run the lesson offline (say in the case of a school with few computers in classroms) which i know is built into LAMS version 2.

I have a few questions for any more experienced LAMS users, as I try and prepare some sequences for some science lessons on Wave properties (Stage 5 Science NSW curriculum)

1. Does LAMS in anyway replicate the formal and informal conversations which occur between students and teachers throughout a lesson? Picture a presentation or practical demonstration in the classroom, this would ususally be accompanied by many questions from students. I know in LAMS there is the chat tool, but can this run alongside other tools, throughtout a sequence?

2. How does LAMS deal with students completing worksheets - your typical comprehension style task. Can students have a website open as well as an online worksheet in Word for example?

Posted by Mark Burgess

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In response to 2 05/22/06 01:36 AM
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G'day Mark,

Regarding question one, you can have a chat activity one after it has been completed for your kids to continue talking while they do some other activities.

If you set up a chat activity to be "not-locked when finished", they the students can come back to it and keep chatting away. When the student go back to the activity (by using the progress bar in learner) by default the chat application will popup in another browser window... so they can keep chatting while doing some other activities. (and you can do this with LAMS 1.0.2, you don't need LAMS 2.0)

I'm not so sure what you mean by "How does LAMS deal with students completing worksheets"... you can have a work/excel file open while doing LAMS in another browser window... is this what you are asking?

Thanks,

Ernie

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