Taken from http://lessonstream.org/
Jamie
Keddle’s LessonStream.Org
Lesson
Plans with Technology at its Best
By Prof. Jonathan Acuña-Solano, M. Ed.
School of English
Faculty of Social
Sciences
Universidad Latina de
Costa Rica
Sunday,
April 3, 2016
Post 247
Hadn’t it been because of Prof.
Michael Krauss, I would not have been lead to finding the wonders behind Jamie
Keddle’s project: LessonStream. This site “is a collection of high quality
lesson plans that incorporate technology. One of the advantages to the
collection is its searchability” (Krauss, 2016) . No doubt Jamie
Keddle’s website is a great contribution for teachers worldwide.
What does a lesson plan include in
Keddle’s page? When you start paying attention to how the lesson plan it is
structure, you find lots of information that can allow you make the most
sensible decision to start using it with your learners. First, we are provided
with an introduction or antecedent to what the situation to be discussed is.
Secondly, the language level, the learner types, time allotted, type of
activity, topic, language covered, and materials are set. Immediately after
this, we are provided with a lesson plan outline, which can be subdivided into
two parts. Lots of information to make a decision on using the activity or not
is supplied, as it can be noticed.
Though
this seems to be a lot of information that is supplied by the site, the page
has more features to help the user. For instance, if one clicks the “language
levels” tab, one gets the suggested level for the lesson plan one is exploring.
If the third tab is clicked, one is supplied with the types of students who can
profit from the plan. Furthermore, time is also suggested for us teachers to
calculate the amount of time that needs to be taken from our regular classes.
The remaining tabs help us to identify –in other lesson plans- all sorts of
main activities, language aims (adjectives, verbs, etc.), various topics, and
materials include more information about the lesson plans included on the
webpage. This last tab seems to be confusing since when one hits materials one
expects –perhaps- to see what extra elements are required for a lesson plan.
Yet, the best of the tabs in LessonStream are language levels and learner type.
As someone who enjoys art and artistic
manifestations, let me choose a sample lesson plan to explore in detail: Scream
by Munch.
1
|
Name of lesson
|
The Scream
|
2
|
URL of the lesson
|
|
3
|
Tab under which I found
this lesson
|
Materials – Image lesson
plans
|
4
|
Brief description of the
lesson
|
Language
Function: To talk about past events and ongoing
actions that were taking place during those past events
|
Objective:
To
infer from pictures what people had been doing before
|
||
5
|
Reasons to chose this
lesson
|
To focus learners on the
description of past events focusing on finished and ongoing actions
|
6
|
What can be hoped from
learners to be able to do after finishing this lesson
|
It is expected that by
the end of this lesson, learners can be able to discuss past events in terms
of finished actions and ongoing ones during that event.
|
To sum up, LessonStream is a great repository of lessons plans. These plans can be worked on just the way they are, or –better yet-, they can be adapted to suit one’s objectives with our students. This is –for sure- one of those websites that must be stored for later use in one’s teaching practice with technology.
References
Krauss, M. (2016, March 3). Exploring Web 2.0.
Retrieved from Exploring Web 2.0:
https://webdisk.lclark.edu/krauss/cwis/exploring20web/syllabus2b.html#day5
Sunday, April 03, 2016
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