1. Learning more about LAMS James Dalziel Professor of Learning Technology & Director, Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE) Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia james@melcoe.mq.edu.au www.melcoe.mq.edu.au Presentation for HNU LAMS workshop, Wuhan, China, 21 st September, 2006

2. Overview LAMS websites About LAMS – general The LAMS Community LAMS translations LAMS integrations Installing and configuring LAMS Developing LAMS Any other questions

3. LAMS websites LAMS Foundation (main website for software) –www.lamsfoundation.org LAMS International (services and support company) –www.lamsinternational.com LAMS Community (community for educational and technical discussion of LAMS) –www.lamscommunity.org MELCOE (Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence) –Home of LAMS development: www.melcoe.mq.edu.au

4. About LAMS - general LAMS CDs –Old CD – 2005: http://www.lamsfoundation.org/CD/ See especially resources section (articles) and documentation (guides for LAMS V1) –New CD – 2006: http://www.lamsfoundation.org/CD0506/ See especially video, case studies, presentation, trial account link and latest downloads for V1 Animated walkthroughs of LAMS V1 (“winks”) –http://lamsinternational.com/documents/1.0/winks/ For latest presentations and articles about LAMS, see LAMS Community at: –http://www.lamscommunity.org/dotlrn/clubs/educationalcommunity/lam sresearchdevelopment/forums/attach/go-to- attachment?object_id=255339&attachment_id=255341

5. The LAMS Community www.lamscommunity.org Various education and technical communities to help with using LAMS, including –FAQs –Discussion forums –Sequence repository (find sequences from other teachers, and share your own) –** Can create new community areas LAMS Community is home for all technical discussion of software development and installation problems

6. LAMS translations LAMS V2 translation page: –http://www.lamscommunity.org/i18n/

7. LAMS Integrations LAMS can be integrated with LMS like Sakai, Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT, etc http://www.lamsfoundation.org/integration/ for all details (code, walkthroughs, etc)

8. Installing and configuring LAMS Latest version (V1) at http://www.lamsfoundation.org/downloads/ Includes installers For Unix, Linux and Windows Include information on OS and MySQL database setup –As well as JBOSS + Tomcat in installer For V2 release, no installer yet, but source code and instructions to compile at –http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/Building+LAMS

9. Developing LAMS V2 LAMS V2 wiki: http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/Home Everything about development of new version –Lots and lots of information – just try “search” to find Also have a Bug tracking/feature system (Jira)

10. Developing LAMS V2 LAMS V2 alpha launch presentation at London Knowledge Lab in March 2006 by Ernie Ghiglione –See slides at http://www.lamscommunity.org/dotlrn/clubs/technicalcommunity/forums/attach/ go-to-attachment?object_id=149204&attachment_id=149206 –Audio recording of presentation at http://www.lonklab.ac.uk/video/lams.html LAMS V2 beta launch presentation at London Knowledge Lab in July 2006 by James Dalziel –Slides at http://www.lamscommunity.org/dotlrn/clubs/educationalcommunity/lamsresearc hdevelopment/forums/attach/go-to- attachment?object_id=255339&attachment_id=255341 –Video recording of presentation at http://www.lkl.ac.uk/video/lams0706.html LAMS V2 work on Tools Contract by Alex Little (Open University UK) – document experience –http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/Tool+Creation+Experience

11. Any other questions? Just post a message to the LAMS Community forums –www.lamscommunity.org