The EdTechEnergy Podcast

By: Melanie Wiscount Ed.D.
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  • 💻Welcome to The EdTechEnergy Podcast. I am obsessed with getting everything "Ed techy" moving, and grooving for teachers and coaches by helping you with whatever keeps you up at night and stresses you out with technology in the classroom. It is my hope that my podcast content inspires you beyond it all to create the type of engaging experiences that keeps students coming back for more. I'm an educator and EdTech instructional coach wanting to make a difference after Education got turned inside out in March 2020. Give me 20 minutes, the average US teacher commute, to learn tried and true strategies, tips, and timesavers to engage students to learn, participate, and achieve. And yes, it's all possible in your classroom. Think of me as your personal EdTech Coach and cheerleader, here to help you reach a healthier life/work balance. Can I hear an "Amen"? Let's dig in…
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  • How to Catapult Student Engagement by using Microsoft FlipGrid Videos

    How to Catapult Student Engagement by using Microsoft FlipGrid Videos
    Apr 17 2023
    If there is one thing that is very true: Students LOVE video! Take advantage of this fact by incorporating video in your instruction, student learning, and their assessment. This podcast episode shares with teachers the buy-in power for students with online discussions when it's in video form. Increase student engagement, excitement, and enthusiasm with FlipGrid in YOUR classroom! ✤ Pew Research Center Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022 Study: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2022/08/PI_2022.08.10_Teens-and-Tech_FINAL.pdf ✤ Microsoft FlipGrid: https://flipgrid.com/ ✤ Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aEJzPFamXXNX_LvjAAHh3WQV8Ggcplat/view?usp=sharing ✤ Valuable FREE FlipGrid Teacher Guide to get you started:  Video Online Discussion Guide - 50 Strategies & Start Up Checklist (teacherspayteachers.com) What makes FlipGrid a natural with your students? ≋ Students can easily create a video right in FlipGrid! ≋ Students can add cool effects to their videos! ≋ Students can view their peers videos! ≋ Students can comment, like, or video respond to their peers' videos! ≋ Teachers can add documents, links, and rubrics to the video discussion's description! ➤ Grab the shownotes at melanie.education/listen21 ⭐Remember to Rate, Review, and Subscribe to my podcast, The EdTechEnergy Podcast!⭐ When you SUBSCRIBE to The EdTechEnergy Podcast, you’ll hear and learn how to use technology in a high engaging way in your instruction, student learning, and assessment! New episodes will come directly to your phone, automatically. And you'll get the content that solely and specially comes to subscribers! ➤ Check out my Teacher Professional Development online courses at All Courses - EdTechEnergy (thinkific.com) ➤ Check out my Teacher Professional Development Coaching at EdTechEnergy Academy courses and coaching (thinkific.com) ➤ Click to join the EdTechEnergy Teacher Newsletter! Keep ahead of everything tech in education with weekly FREE Strategies, Tips, Timesavers, and Templates! ✤ Stay in touch for FREE EdTech Strategies, Tips, and Timesavers! Instagram—https://www.instagram.com/edtechenergy/ Facebook–https://www.facebook.com/edtechenergy/ Pinterest–https://www.pinterest.com/edtechenergy/ Blog–https://edtechenergy.org/blog Podcast–https://edtechenergy.org/podcast Music Attribution in Intro and Outro—Music License: Jamendo Licensing Standard License - Title: Inspiring Corporate Artist: CORPORATEMUSIC Album: Corporate A  
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    18 mins
  • Episode 20: PBL—Use RUBRICS to Empower Your Students

    Episode 20: PBL—Use RUBRICS to Empower Your Students
    Feb 25 2023

    If there is one valuable time-saving tip I would provide new teachers when they create unit and summative assessment projects, it would be to fully embrace the power of project-based learning rubrics. When I was a Student Teacher Supervisor at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, I devoted an entire class to teach the art and science of rubric creation. When project rubrics are drafted and designed with the end product or result in mind, as well as keeping your students at the forefront, the rubric becomes a helpful catalyst to produce the best project submissions from our students.

    This podcast episode shares the content that university class offered my twelve student teachers who were very excited to do everything right and well to impress their host teachers. I'm also providing you some of the rubric techniques as “secrets” I learned along the way that I did not learn in my college classes or textbooks.

    Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aEJzPFamXXNX_LvjAAHh3WQV8Ggcplat/view?usp=sharing

    Valuable Product to get you started:

    TPT Multimedia Project Rubrics for PBL – Video and More – Editable – Secondary

    The right rubric provides your expectations right from the start when you introduce the rubric with your summative assessment project. This pack is complete with 16 rubrics, in editable Microsoft Word .docx files, so you may use them as is or customize them with your summative assessment expectations!

    ≋ 16 Editable and Customizable .docx Project Rubrics!

    ≋ 16 PDF Printable Project Rubrics!

    ≋ 1–3 P's Peer Review Google Rubric! - Store BESTSELLER!

    ≋ 1–3 P's Peer Review Easel Rubric! - Store BESTSELLER!

    ≋ 2 Versions of Podcast Episode Project Rubrics!

    ≋ Choice of Black & White or Color!

    ≋ All rubrics follow best practices!

    ➤ Grab the shownotes at melanie.education/listen20

    ⭐Remember to Rate, Review, and Subscribe to my podcast, The EdTechEnergy Podcast!⭐

    When you SUBSCRIBE to The EdTechEnergy Podcast, you’ll hear and learn how to use technology in a high engaging way in your instruction, student learning, and assessment! New episodes will come directly to your phone, automatically. And you'll get the content that solely and specially comes to subscribers!

    ➤ Check out my Teacher Professional Development online courses at All Courses - EdTechEnergy (thinkific.com)

    ➤ Click to join the EdTechEnergy Teacher Community! Keep ahead of everything EdTech with weekly FREE Strategies, Tips, Timesavers, and Templates!

    ✤ Stay in touch for FREE EdTech Strategies, Tips, and Timesavers!

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    Music Attribution in Intro and Outro

    Music License: Jamendo Licensing Standard License - Title: Inspiring Corporate Artist: CORPORATEMUSIC Album: Corporate A
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    26 mins
  • Episode 19: How do Students Need to FEEL in your classroom to Want to ENGAGE in your course and content?

    Episode 19: How do Students Need to FEEL in your classroom to Want to ENGAGE in your course and content?
    Apr 20 2022

    In today’s episode (Episode 19), I talk about three feelings students must feel before they decide to engage in your instruction, student learning activities, and assessments.

    Below are the links that were mentioned in the podcast episode.
     ❓If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at melanie@edtechenergy.org.

    The VIA Character Strength Survey - https://www.viacharacter.org/Account/Register

    ➤ Grab the show notes at melanie.education/listen19

    ⭐Remember to Rate, Review, and Subscribe to my podcast, The EdTechEnergy Podcast!⭐

    When you SUBSCRIBE to The EdTechEnergy Podcast, you’ll hear and learn how to use technology in a high engaging way in your instruction, student learning, and assessment! New episodes will come directly to your phone, automatically. And you'll get the content that solely and specially comes to subscribers!

    ➤ Check out my Teacher Professional Development online courses at All Courses - EdTechEnergy (thinkific.com)

    ➤ Click to join the EdTechEnergy Teacher Community! Keep ahead of everything EdTech with weekly FREE Strategies, Tips, Timesavers, and Templates!

    ✤ Stay in touch for FREE EdTech Strategies, Tips, and Timesavers!

    Instagram

    Facebook

    Pinterest

    Blog

    Podcast

    Music Attribution in Intro and Outro

    Music License: Jamendo Licensing Standard License - Title: Inspiring Corporate Artist: CORPORATEMUSIC Album: Corporate A
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    21 mins

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