A New Type of Conference – An Exciting Design for the Future
Posted by LAMS Administrator on 1 December, 2006
Skype software and VOiP telephony has made collaboration possible in a new way and podcasting a world without borders. In this the first podcast for LAMS 2006, Allan Carrington from the University of Adelaide recording directly from Skype, talks to Professor James Dalziel director of MELCOE at Macquarie University in Sydney. James is the convenor of LAMS 2006 and he begins the podcast with a great overview of exactly what LAMS is and shows why the conference theme of designing for the future is so applicable
We talk about two exciting things that set LAMS apart:
- How teachers can share and reuse a description of the educational process and not merely educational content
- The collaborative sequence structure with evidence of great educational outcomes
James shares about the keynote speakers and some of the things they will bring to the conference including Professor Diana Laurillard directly from London via a virtual classroom and using LAMS itself before and after the keynote. This is going to be a really hands on interactive keynote and definitely designing a much richer record for the future.
We then discussed hints to maximise the conference experience and how to take the knowledge back to your organisation. Such things as round table discussion and panel sessions demonstrating extremely imaginative applications of LAMS.
James talks about the LAMS community and how the conference will integrate and seed this community of practice and the hope for more LAMS conferences globally.
Please share your thoughts about this podcast in the comments to this blog
December 2nd, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Thanks to James and Allan for an interesting introduction to the upcoming LAMS conference in Sydney. Unfortunately I am not able to attend but I look forward to keeping abreast of everything via blogs such as this.
I trust the conference exceeds all expectations and I look forward to liaising further with Allan on his return from the conference.
Regards Judi Baron
December 4th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
Thanks for this interesting insight. And thanks for keeping it succinct (8 to a maximum of 10/11 minutes seem quite adequate, at least for my taste and usual “time at disposition capacities”) I have already decided to attend the conference PodCasts etc., as I am unfortunately not able to fly over to Sydney!!
One suggestion: Having a quite international audience, it could help one person or another to be offered a text transcript (Elliot Masie for ex. offers it for most of the PodCasts he posts and he says it is not too expensive …).
Cheers and good luck for the conference, Peter
December 4th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
Dear James,
I am sorry I cannot be at the LAMS conference this week. It is a very hectic time of year for teachers but I am sure it will be an exciting event. I look forward to seeing and hearing the ‘richer record’ of the conference that is shared on this blog.
Good luck this week.
I also look forward to working more closely with MELCOE next year as Centre Director of MU ICT Centre.
Debbie Evans