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The EdTechEnergy Podcast
by Melanie Wiscount, Ed.D.
💻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…
Episodes
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How to Catapult Student Engagement by using Microsoft FlipGrid Videos
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....
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Episode 20: PBL—Use RUBRICS to Empower Your Students
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...
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Episode 19: How do Students Need to FEEL in your classroom to Want to ENGAGE in your course and content?
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...
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Episode 18: Top Strategies to Transform Personalized Learning in your Classroom
Go to this Episode 18's Show Notes at: edtechenergy.org/listen18 OR melanie.wiscount/listen18 In today's episode (Episode 18), I talk about how to create personalized learning pathways for your instruction, student learning, and assessment. Get ready to hear MANY strategies, tips, and...
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Episode 17: Engage Students to Listen & Learn with Alexa™
In today's episode, I talk about how to integrate and use Amazon Alexa™ AI (Artificial Intelligence) in your instruction, student learning, and assessment in the classroom to DRIVE UP student engagement! Listen for 10 QUICK Tips to get you off and running when integrating Alexa™ AI (Artificial...
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Episode 16: Give your Students VOICE a Clever Way!
In today's episode, I talk about why podcasts created by students make a GREAT assessment! The popularity of podcasts is on your side when you introduce a podcast project to your students, and watch out for the excitement, pride, and confidence they come out of a series of podcast assessments....
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Episode 15: POUNCE OUT the Plagiarism in your Classroom
Before the March 2020 Pandemic school closings across not only the nation, but the world, plagiarism was one of those occurrences that happened in our classroom that we as teachers wanted to squash. The internet and the easy "copy and paste" makes plagiarism prevalent and problematic in our...
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Episode 14: So YES, I Need Some EdTech Training, But Where to Find It
In today's episode, I'll give you some tips and tricks that will make your self-chosen and initiated EdTech PD in your career something you look forward to, and gets you excited as well as those higher teacher evaluation scores! Consider the answers to 22 questions when choosing your next EdTech…
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Episode 13: Why EdTech PD is a Necessary Part of Teaching after the Pandemic?
If you were teaching BEFORE March 2020, you can easily compare what you knew about and did with EdTech with what you know about EdTech now. Whew! What a tailspin! With all these changes, teachers should make EdTech professional development part of their career plan. Learn about 7 reasons why…
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Episode 12: Be on Top of Copyright, Fair Use, Creative Commons, and Public Domain in your Classroom
We can, in our classroom, make this a customary practice and develop a conscientiousness in our students about copyright, intellectual property, and checking licenses of media to make sure we can use them in our instruction, student learning, and their assessment. Teaching Copyright, Fair Use,...
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Episode 11: The YouTube Instructional Videos Whoas and Wins
At the beginning of the year, it never fails. The first question teachers ask me or email me is how to get around the school district's content filter to access YouTube instructional videos for instruction and student learning. Check out: 10 reasons why using YouTube content in the classroom is a...
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Episode 10: Why is Student Engagement the Powerhouse to Student Learning?
On both my blog and podcast, I write and speak about student engagement in the classroom. The reason why I put so much emphasis into student engagement? I have found, in my eighteen years in the classroom either as a middle school or high school educator, or an educational technology…
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Episode 9: If Student Engagement is Low, What is Missing?
In my recent blog posts, I talked a lot about what engages our students in our classrooms. You learned that community, technology, instructor presence, and more are real game-changers when it comes to engaging our students from the start of our lessons to the end. But in this episode, I'm going…
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Episode 8: How Does Technology Empower Student Engagement?
Whether you are a teacher who uses a lot of technology in the classroom, or one who uses a small amount of technology in the classroom, I believe we can all agree, technology in our classrooms is here to stay, especially since the situation we all found ourselves in March 2020 when everything we...
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Episode 7: How Does Instructor Presence Impact Student Engagement in your Classroom?
As teachers, we participate in many professional development sessions about instruction, student learning, and assessment. In our college courses, we learned about instructional strategies, assessment approaches, and classroom management. I believe it is safe to say, that professional development...
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Episode 6: What is the #1 Influencer of Student Engagement?
In my 18 years in education as both a computer science teacher and educational technology instructional coach, I've seen patterns of powerful influencers that have a tremendous positive impact on encouraging classroom student engagement. Some of my best memories in my 13 years teaching students…
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Episode 5: Learn 9 Strategies to Fill Student Gaps in the Summer
We read and hear a lot about concerns that due to students learning from home, being away from school, teachers, friends, and extra-curricular activities, and not having what used to be the normal and familiar routine of going to school, there may be gaps in their learning and development. In…
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Episode 4: Revamping your Final Exams and Putting Students First
Finals are right around the corner. What should your final look like to gauge your student's learning at the school-year end that keeps in mind social-emotional wellness and fairness to our students in these unique times? I believe until we are back in the physical classroom, the way finals used…
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Episode 3: 31 Strategies to Encourage Students to Turn on Their Cameras During Live Virtual Classes
Did you know the top three struggles teachers are experiencing in virtual learning? -- The lack of student engagement in live virtual classes is the #1 struggle! -- Students not completing and turning in their work is the #2 struggle. -- So, what is challenge #3? You guessed it! Students don't…
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Episode 2: Provide Meaningful Feedback that Increases FUTURE Student Engagement, Participation, & Achievement
Did you know the way you provide feedback to your students can increase their engagement in an assignment, as well as their future performance, plus save you time? Listen to today's podcast episode and I'll reveal the secrets of providing meaningful and purposeful student feedback that has a…
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Episode 1: Ride on the Wings of these Virtual Learning Student Advantages & Increase Student Engagement
Virtual learning has brought our students many challenges in their learning, socialization, athletics, and extra-curricular activities. But, on the flip side, virtual learning has brought our students many advantages in their learning. Listen to The EdtechEnergy Podcast Episode 1 to hear about...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
💻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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Melanie Wiscount, Ed.D.
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