This presentation was created as an experiential portal for a Workshop given at the TESOL Arabia Conference at 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: http://learning2gether.posterous.com/learner-centred-do-it-yourself-learning-manag There is more information at http://fcwr101.pbworks.com/DIYLMS and http://diylms.posterous.com

1. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE COURSES
P R E - C O N F E R E N C E D E V E L O P M E N T C E R T I F I C AT E C O U R S E
TEACHING & LEARNING ONLINE
VA N C E S T E V E N S
L EA RNE R - C E NT RE D D O - I T - YO U RS E L F L EA RNING
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
W E D N E S D A Y , 7 TH M A R C H 2 0 1 2
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2. This PowerPoint is irrelevant
THIS IS RELEVANT
HTTP://DIYLMS.PBWORKS.COM
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3. Other URLs for this presentation
You don’t really need this PowerPoint
All you need to follow this presentation is online
at the links below
 Home: http://diylms.pbworks.com
 Rationale: http://learning2gether.posterous.com/learner-
centred-do-it-yourself-learning-manag
 Paper: http://diylms.posterous.com
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4. Activity 1: Let’s open a backchannel
 We created a group DIYLMS in Edmodo (code 83rwm5)
 Twitter (hoping there would be some tweets)
This would be a good opportunity for someone to tweet
about this session using the tag
DIYLMS12
p.s. Conference tag is TACON12
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5. Activity 2: Brainstorm online
 Facilitator creates an online common space
 http://titanpad.com/WOyYy8R4Tm
 Facilitator seeds the space with general features of LMS
from participants
 We create and share Tiny URL of that space
 http://tinyurl.com/diylms12
 We form groups according to features
 Each group develops ONE aspect of the document
 We discuss each other’s ideas (something about chickens)
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6. Siemens’s features of good LMS part 1
From: http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/lms.htm
 Have a place for learner expression (blog/portfolio)
 Have a place for content interaction (LMS' have this)
 Have a place to connect with other learners (discussion
forum - LMS' have this)
 Have a place to connect the thoughts of other learners in
a personal, meaningful way - i.e. using RSS and then
brought back into the "learner expression tool“
 Have a place to dialogue with the instructor
(email, VoIP, etc. - webct has some of this)
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7. Siemens’s features of good LMS part 1
 Have a place to dialogue with gurus (apprentice) - the heart of
online communities is the mess of varying skills and expertise.
Gurus are people currently in industry or established
practitioners of the organizing theme of the community. LMS
limit the interaction to learner and instructor.
 Have a place for learning artifacts of those who've gone
before - i.e. content management capabilities accessible and
managed by the learner. Tools like Furl, del.icio.us are
examples of personal knowledge management (PKM) tools.
 Be modularized so additional functionality and tools can be
added based on what learners want or need...a bricolage of
course tools - based on open standards - allow for
incorporation of new approaches as needed.
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8. Activity 3: Collaborative writing & sharing
From this handout:
http://diylms.pbworks.com/w/file/51521689/diylms12_Collaboration_gdocs_delicious.pdf
 We use Google Docs
 Delicious
 Tiny URL
By the end of this exercise we should be able to aggregate
our work at this url:
http://delicious.com/tag/diylms12
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9. Activity 4: Tag Games
How can we aggregate our tags? We'll need some volunteers ...
 Can someone go onto their Delicious account and tag as many sites
as you can think of relevant to diylms12 ?
 Can anyone take pictures and upload them to Flickr and tag
them diylms12 ?
 Can someone tweet on the hash tag #diylms12
 Can someone with a Posterous account please
join http://diylms.posterous.com and email a post message
to diylms@posterous.com
Instructions from Posterous: "Replace the subject line and body with your
first post and hit send! Include pictures, an mp3, or anything else you want to
share. It's just that simple."
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10. Tag game output
Where can we see our tags?
 Flickr http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=diylms12&f=hp
 http://taggalaxy.de/
 Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/diylms12
 Delicious
 http://delicious.com/tag/diylms12
 http://delicious.com/search?p=diylms12
 Super-aggregators
 Spezify http://www.spezify.com/#/diylms12
 Addictomatic http://addictomatic.com/topic/diylms12
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11. Thanks for your attention
HOPE YOU TOOK GOOD NOTES !
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12. Just kidding about the notes LOL
Everything you need to know is online
Check it out at your convenience
 This workshop: http://diylms.pbworks.com
 Read the article: http://diylms.posterous.com
 The above article refers to the deeper rationale presented
here: http://tinyurl.com/2012feb8diylms
 These slides: http://slideshare.net/vances
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