Does anyone know if LAMS can be integrated into Sharepoint?
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Sent: 23 June 2008 10:18
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Subject: Re: [VLES] Integrating an Inspirations output into a VLE
Have you tried using LAMS plugged in to your VLE?
http://www.lamsinternational.com/
Nick
Ray Tolley wrote:
> Sounds like a brilliant idea, but would not the end-user also need a
copy of
> Inspiration? I am not aware of any 'interoperability' between the
several
> very different mind-mapping applications?
>
> I have always had to use added hyperlinks to a non-dynamic graphical
image
> to link additional files for users with different or no mapping
software.
>
> If you can send me a sample file I could try it on the various
mind-mapping
> systems that we use in schools.
>
> BW
>
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> Dave Foord
> Sent: 23 June 2008 08:40
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> Subject: [VLES] Integrating an Inspirations output into a VLE
>
> One of the problems with VLEs is they tend to have a linear structure
> (resources are listed linearly) and although we can use folder
structures to
> give some structure, with most VLEs as you navigate into the folder
> structure you lose site of the 'bigger picture' of where the resources
are
> in relation to everything else.
>
> I have recently been running training at a few colleges with the Mind
> Mapping software 'Inspirations', and I have discovered that it is
possible
> to use Inspirations to link learning resources together in a
meaningful
> organised structured visual map, you can then package the whole thing
up as
> HTML (and Inspirations will then take copies of all the resources in
this
> process) and then upload the whole thing to a VLE.
>
> The advantages are:-
>
> 1) If you have a lot of resources to upload, this is actually a much
quicker
> way of doing this
> 2) The learners have the resources arranged in a more meaningful way
> 3) As the whole thing is packaged in HTML, you can access the
materials on
> any computer without needing the Inspirations software
> 4) If in the future your organisation ever changes VLE, rather than
> transferring 100s of individual resources, you would only have to
transfer a
> much smaller number of packages
> 5) The packages could work offline, so if networks fail, you have some
kind
> of a back up plan
>
> I have so far tested this with Moodle and Blackboard, and instructions
for
> each are on my blog, links are below. I imagine that the process will
work
> with other VLEs and with other Mind Mapping software, but I haven't
had a
> chance to test them yet.
>
> Moodle
>
http://davefoord.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/integrating-inspirations-outpu
ts-i
> nto-moodle-to-manage-files/
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/4jhf8d
>
> Blackboard
>
http://davefoord.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/uploading-an-inspirations-outp
ut-t
> o-blackboard/
> Or
> http://tinyurl.com/5ld5r5
>
>
> Dave Foord
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