I was fortunate to attend the 3rd International LAMS conference held in Sydney on 5th December 2008.  In particular, I was really impressed by the presentation by Jarrod Johnson & Peter Cheel from Pedare Christian College.  Jarrod & Peter presented two sessions both of which were very interesting.

• The first was about how they used LAMS to scaffold the Personal Project that each student is required to work on over the course of a year as part of the International Baccalaureate program.  The LAMS sequence guides the students through the various stages of the project – and serves both as a planning tool for the students and an oversight tool for the instructors.
• The second session was about an online course (on forensics) designed to accommodate students who were unable to attend the regular classes due to schedule clashes. An interesting idea floated by Jarrod in this session was the notion of students enrolled in one school being able to take online courses offered by other schools.  This type of arrangement if implemented will allow schools to share scarce teaching resources and be able to offer a wider range of courses than they would be able to on their own.