Flipping learning with DIYLMS = Do it yourself Learning Management Systems
Edmodo code 83rwm5
our tag #DIYLMS12
Introduction
This wiki is created as an experiential portal for a Workshop given at the TESOL Arabia Conference
Dubai Women's College, March 7, 2012
- It derives from courses I have designed and taught where the techniques described here have been used:
- The rationale for DIYLMS was presented Feb 8, 2012 at the IATEFL ITSIG conference in Marrakech
Slide share and recording links available at: https://learning2gether.net/2012/02/08/learner-centred-do-it-yourself-learning-manag/
- The presentation will be revised for delivery and simulcast on April 3, 2012 at the 6th eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah Higher Colleges of Technology
- There is more information at
Below is the presentation I gave in Sharjah, which I recorded after the fact, having tried unsuccessfully to do so at the time I gave the presentation (connectivity issues). The Posterous blog at diylms.posterous.com, referred to in the presentation, contained just one post, which I turned into this publication before Posterous was taken offline:
Stevens, Vance. (2012). Learner-centered Do-it-yourself Learning Management Systems. TESL-EJ, Volume 15, Number 4, pp. 1-14: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej60/int.pdf. Also at http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume15/ej60/ej60int/
Learner-centered do-it-yourself Learning Management Systems: Practical aspects from Vance Stevens
You can follow along in the slides as you listen, here
Preparation
To help illustrate how I would actually conduct a course during the course of a semester, I have removed the material that was here from OFF the front page (where it contributes to clutter) and to its own page accessible from the sidebar, or via this link: Preparation
Handouts
Paper-based handouts you should receive on-site
- An encapsulation of this overview, in handout format
- Shows how you should prepare for this session, if you have time, before the session begins
- and what we will do during the 1.5 hour session
- The handout we will follow for team group-work using Google Docs and Delicious: Word doc and pdf file
Virtual Handouts you find online
Program for the session, 14:15 to 15:45
http://tesolarabia.org/conference/pd/online_learning.php
Learning Zone Classroom A (2nd floor) Date: 7th March, 2012
LMS and CMS
CMS = Content
Management System
An example DIYCMS: http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com
LMS = CMS plus learning management
Examples of DIYLMS:
Characteristics of CMS/LMS
Brainstorm using an Etherpad clone
- In a big group, list the features
- In small groups, elaborate on how you use these features
How we can emulate in Web 2.0 the features the participants think are important in DIYLMS?
Components can include
- A wiki portal for course information and organization, with, links pertinent to course content and management, other relevant resources, and screencasts and other tutorials.
- Google Docs for student submission of assignments. Teacher feedback can be given in-class interactively in real-time via in-class projector, with individual students following along on their laptops. Asynchronously, effective feedback can be given in such a way that it can be immediately seen whenever and wherever students are revising their work.
- Blogging, to showcase student work.
- Etherpad clones for group collaboration tasks
- Jing and Screenr to create and annotated screen-capture and screencast tutorials
- A back-channel tool such as Twitter, Skype group chat, or Edmodo
- In teacher training, I also use
- Skype group chat as a synchronous AND asynchronous forum
- Google Hangout for live webcam and voice-enabled interaction
- WiZiQ
All of these tools are free and work in my own institutional settings in on HCT campuses in the UAE. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to experiment with some of the tools and evaluate their efficacy through their experience.
Activating DIYLMS
Back-channeling
Let's pop into
Collaborative writing
- Let's try some Collaborative Writing using Google Docs and see if we can get the tags to appear in our Delicious feeds
Instructions: Word doc and pdf file
- Here's a follow-on exercise on Team building using Delicious and Google Docs
http://www.pimoodle.org/file.php/69/TESOL_Arabia_March_2011/Team_Building_tacon2011.pdf
from
http://www.pimoodle.org/course/view.php?id=69
PI is Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, where I was working in 2012. PIMoodle is a good example of what can go wrong with Moodle if it is a part of your DIYLMS. This actually applies to almost any free tool, whose provider can pull it down on short notice, as many do, but I entrusted a lot of my work to PI Moodle. PI was running Blackboard as an institutional LMS but the English and computing departments liked Moodle because they could get their SCORM exercises to work on it; whereas they were not able to do the same with Bb. So the computing dept kept Moodle running on a box in the corner of their server room until someone higher up at PI asked why they were doing that when the school was paying so much for Bb, so they were ordered to pull the plug.
They gave us notice of course, and one nice thing about Moodle is that users can get their courses off it in Zip files which they can upload to other Moodle servers. So I got a Moodle up at Bluehost which I use for http://vancestevens.com, and uploaded my Moodle files there, and everything was working nicely until my Moodle got hacked and became non-functional. Bluehost help was not helpful except to show me what my Moodle code looked like after the hack. They took no responsibilty for allowing it to happen, nor were they able to restore it. I didn't have a zip backup then, and for me it was just a lesson learned.
I have written about this problem of loss of Web 2.0 sites here:
Stevens, V. (2020). The sky is falling: Are we nearing the end of Web 2.0?.TESL-EJ, 23(3), 1-14. Retrieved from http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej92/int.pdf. Also available: http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume23/ej92/ej92int/
Tag games
In these exercises you create and share Google Docs with your teacher and one another.
Then you Publish them and TAG them in Delicious or Diigo.
Eventually they should show up here: http://delicious.com/tag/diylms12
(Delicious used to be a bookmarking site; these days the only reliable tag site appears to be Twitter)
Always check your proposed tag to see what comes up before you actually use it!
We'll have to use DIYLMS12; here's why ...
These links were here to illustrate that if you searched on TACON (TESOL Arabia Conference) or DIYLMS then you would get confounding hits.
Adding the number to the tag made these searches unique, which showed that no one else in the world was using that tag, in which case it would be a good tag for you to use. This concept applies equally well to whatever tagging service you are using. You can do the same test with Twitter to determine if your tag is already being used (in which case don't use it) or if no one has used it before (so THAT'S your tag!)
How the small pieces loosely join together: Tag Games
http://braz2010vance.pbworks.com/w/page/27944056/TagGames
Aggregating content
To help illustrate how I would actually conduct a course during the course of a semester, I have removed the material that was here from OFF the front page (where it contributes to clutter) and to its own page accessible from the sidebar, or via this link: aggregation
Further reading
- The full 4000+ word article in TESL-EJ, March 2012
Stevens, Vance. (2012). Learner-centered Do-it-yourself Learning Management Systems. TESL-EJ, Volume 15, Number 4, pp. 1-14: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej60/int.pdf. Also at http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume15/ej60/ej60int/
- Version published in ELTAF Newsletter issue on blended learning: Stevens, V. (2012). Turning a 3-hour Face-to-Face Seminar into an Opportunity for Extended Online Blended Learning. ELTAF Newsletter 16, Spring 2012, pages 16-21. Available: http://vancestevens.com/papers/pdfs/ELTAF_NL_Spring2012_pp16-21.pdf.
- And a 2000+ word extract for the proceeds of the 6th eLearning in Action conference held at the Sharjah Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE, on April 3, 2012
- The shct links no longer work. See the print version
Stevens, V. (2012). DIYLMS: Learner-centered Do-it-yourself Learning Management System. In Dowling, S., Gunn, C., Raven, J., Gitsaki, C. (Eds.). Opening up Learning: HCT Educational Technology Series. HCT Press: Abu Dhabi; ISBN 978-9948-16-864-5), pp.103-112. Index on Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20131207183422/http://shct.hct.ac.ae/events/edtechpd2013/articles/index.asp. DIYLMS pp.0-11 available: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/archive/2012DIYLMS.pdf;
edited Jan. 7, 2023 by VS
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