InTime Publicity

INTIME Grant Project:

Web Site Features Classroom Videos

INTIME (Integrating New Technologies Into Methods of Education) is a two million dollar Catalyst Grant given to UNI's Kim College of Education from fhe U.S.Department of Education. The three-year INTIME Project addresses deficiencies in teacher education programs in preparing preservice teachers to use technology effectively in the prek-12 classroom. INTIME has established a web site (www.intime.uni.edu) for methods faculty to use to revise their courses, model technology integration, and require preservice teachers to integrate technology, along with components of quality education, in their lessons and units. The web site features 50 videos of teachers from preschool to high school using technology with their classes. Each teacher has eight vignettes that showcase the best practices in teaching.

Several of the PLS faculty have been involved with the INTIME project. Kim Miller (resource teacher) and Craig Saddler (4th grade teacher) just completed their video portion for the INTIME project, Lyn Countryman (7th grade science teacher) and Vicki Oleson (6th grade math and science teacher) completed their videos in the fall.

Kim and Craig showcased technology alternatives to the dictionary: Quicktionary Reading Pens, Talking Franklin Spell Checkers, and Craig's classroom web page. The Quicktionary Pen scans words from a text, reads them aloud, and gives the dictionary definition (www.wizcomtech.com). The Talking Franklin Spell Checker reads words that are typed in and corrects misspelled words (www.franklin.com). Craig's classroom web page accesses interactive reading activities put together by the students and the teacher (http://fp.uni.edu/saddle50).

UNI education professors and practicing teachers are already using the INTIME web site to show their students what they can do in their future classrooms. The outcomes of this project appear to be powerful.

by Kim Miller, Resource Instructor

Price Lab School Newspaper, July 2001