Representing the Activities Within a Learning Session

2 things here:

• Representing the nature of individual activities
• Representing the flow of activities and the relationships among them (akin to LAMS)

Representing the nature of individual activities

Here's a suggestion from Liz's PhD thesis, in which characters from the WingDings? set were used to denote the different forms of interaction between teacher and students, or between learners, or individual activities. The colour-coding is intended to convey a quick visual impression of the relative degree of participation of the parties to the interaction: red = "teacher talk"; blue = student[+student]; magenta = teacher+student. So you can see very quickly the mix of interactions: too much red, and the session is looking a bit didactic; lots of magenta suggests a democratic flow of ideas...

Oops: technical hitch -- I don't know how to upload a .JPG to Trac.

NB The categories were developed to analyse lessons that had already taken place, so some may be irrelevant within a planning context (e.g. student initiatives).