InTime Video Resource

LESSON PLAN: Using Technology For Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, and Word Identification

I reviewed the above-named lesson from the InTime site, which is a resource of lessons that integrate technology. I like that these lessons include actual video footage of implementation in a classroom in order to get a sense of how it should come across.
This lesson is geared toward elementary students who are working on reading skills, particularly vocabulary development. I chose this lesson because the target audience of students was that of kids who are struggling with the vocabulary presented in the reading selection. There is technology integrated into the lesson in the form of a power point presentation to reinforce what the teachers were introducing to the students, as well as a way to display examples of how to record the information they were gathering. The students also used "Quicktionary" pens in teams to scan unknown words: either in pronunciation or meaning. The final outcome was to develop a computer based game that used baseball as the structure/format, and included the vocabulary the students identified throughout reading the story.
I liked the lesson because it provided tools to help the students take charge of their learning, and the baseball format made it relevant and engage for the students as well. The students were able to identify the words, develop questions to "quiz" their classmates, and in the end they were able to play a computer based game that was based on the words they identified. Very high interest and I would think it helped the students learn and own a whole new set of vocabulary words.
I think InTime is a great online resource for teachers who are learning how to integrate technology into the classroom, and to get fresh ideas for lesson planning.