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  LAMS Foundation LAMS provides a visual editor for creating customized learning activity sequences for individual students or groups of students within a class. LAMS is more than just a planning tool; it is the system within which students complete individual or collaborative online learning activities. Teachers can monitor and actively manage student progress. LAMS is a tool for designing, managing and delivering online collaborative learning activities. It provides teachers with a highly intuitive visual authoring environment for creating sequences of learning activities. These activities can include a range of individual tasks, small group work and whole class activities based on both content and collaboration. Click here for an interactive demonstration of LAMS.

  LKL Research :: JISC Design for Learning Programme - Home The LPP helps teachers define a teaching module in terms of its aims, topics, and outcomes. Then it provides a spreadsheet-like tool for allocating the time students are expected to spend across a range of cognitive activities such as attention, discussion, or practice. The teacher assigns teaching and assessment methods to course topics to support the desired student time allocation.

ZaidLearn: 10 Secrets to Great Teaching Zaid Ali Alsagoff teaches in Malaysia and has posted two videos where he discusses characteristics of great teachers and great teaching. What do you think - is he on track or what has he missed?

These two books were just released and they are a great resource for teachers who want to find out more about some resources that area available on the Internet and how to use them in their classrooms. I hope they help. The Web 2.0 Projects book contains nearly 60 projects using Web 2.0 tools, organised in age groups. Coming of Age: An Introduction to the NEW Worldwide Web (1st Ed) is a great introduction to Web 2.0 in education. This first edition was downloaded 60,000 times before I lost count!