LAMS
I really enjoyed reading what Julia had to say about LAMS in her post The Wolf and the LAMS. It has a lot of potential for helping students to learn languages as it is interactive and allows for a lot of communication based activities and tasks. Christopher Alexander gives an easy to understand overview of what LAMS is and explains the benefits that it can have for teaching and learning, An Overview of LAMS, which I found very useful as I was not at all familiar with this program before. I can see very practical uses for it in the classroom, especially the opportunity to use it as a learning network between students here and in other countries (as mentioned in my previous blog modern day penfriends). Again it’s emphasis is on the autonomy of students and encouraging them to take control of their own learning and extend it as far as they can. Another important feature of LAMS is that it is not just for students’ learning, teachers can also access LAMS to find lesson plans, resources and innovative ideas for using LAMS in their classes. There are several sites (like the youtube video above) to help teachers get started with LAMS and to continue to expand their own learning along with the students.
