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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!

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    ➤ Grab the shownotes at melanie.education/listen20

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    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

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    Music License: Jamendo Licensing Standard License - Title: Inspiring Corporate Artist: CORPORATEMUSIC Album: Corporate A
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    21 mins
  • Episode 18: Top Strategies to Transform Personalized Learning in your Classroom

    Episode 18: Top Strategies to Transform Personalized Learning in your Classroom
    Mar 30 2022
    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 implementation ideas to start small and end BIG with a variety of ways to personalize 3-4 learning pathways, and then exponentially personalize inside of each pathway. 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 Fleming VARK Questionnaire for Younger People. You will need to pay to use this survey, but the low cost is worth the advantages it gives you as well as the time it saves collecting the data, reporting it in an easy form, and providing analysis. Learn more about the VARK subscription ($37.50 at the time of this blog post) at this link. When creating personalized learning pathways, start with UDL, Universal Design of Learning. This type of model works seamlessly with personalized learning. At the link provided, you’ll find UDL Guidelines for Engagement, Representation, and Action & Expression, to create learners who are purposeful and motivated, resourceful, and knowledgeable, and strategic and goal oriented. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~⭐Below is a possible flow you may use to create a learning pathway template for a lesson: 1.    Learning Outcome(s) 2.    Essential Question(s) 3.    Standard(s) 4.    Word Wall with Definitions 5.    Hook 6.    Instruction A 7.    Learning Activity A 8.    Mini assessment/exit ticket ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ⭐Below is a possible flow to create a learning pathway template for a 3-lesson unit of study: 1.    Learning Outcomes 2.    Essential Questions 3.    Standards 4.    Word Wall with Definitions 5.    Hook 6.    Instruction A 7.    Learning Activity A 8.    Mini formative assessment/exit ticket 9.    Hook 10. Instruction B 11. Learning Activity B 12. Mini formative assessment/exit ticket 13. Hook 14. Instruction C 15. Learning Activity C 16. Mini formative assessment/exit ticket 17. Group Work – reviews, applies, and prepares for independent work 18. Summative independent Work – End Result ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ⭐Here are possible group breakdowns based on Pres-assessment quiz score percentages: Three-Group Pre-Assessment Score Breakdown: ·       Group A – 85%-100% ·       Group B – 70%-84% ·       Group C – 69% and below Four-Group Pre-Assessment Score Breakdown: ·       Group A – 95%-100% ·       Group B – 80%-94% ·       Group C – 70%-79% ·       Group D – 69% and below ⭐EdTech strategies to personalize learning are: ·       Use adaptive learning websites. ·       Create learning playlists. ·       Create interactive infographics. ·       Use mastery paths in LMS platforms. ·       Create your own instructional videos. ·       Create a challenge in a personalized learning pathway. ·       Use online notebooks like OneNote to personalize every part of the learning pathway. OneNote could be the way you deliver your personalized learning pathway. Check out these teacher interactive guides to learn how to create in OneNote. ·       Use your LMS, Nearpod, or Pear Deck to create your personalized learning pathways. ·       Use media to supplement and motivate the learning. ·       Create backchannels where student may ask and answer questions. The backchannel then becomes a source for support. Use Padlet to create a visually appealing backchannel. ·       Use a social annotation tool like, hypothes.is, for students to socially learn together in their groups. ·       Create personalized learning paths in Sutori. 👉I created a Personalized Learning Path Checklist for teachers to use as you begin creating your personalized learning pathways for your students. Grab the FREE checklist at the link at this link: https://engage.edtechenergy.org/personalizedlearningpathchecklist Want to increase student engagement in your classroom to new heights? 👉Join the EdTechEnergy Community to receive weekly EdTech strategies, tips, templates, timesavers, and FREEBIES in your Inbox: https://engage.edtechenergy.org/join-community Links mentioned in the Episode 18 podcast: The Fleming VARK Questionnaire for Younger People Universal Design of Learning OneNote and OneNote teacher interactive guides Nearpod or Pear Deck Padlet hypothes.is Sutori ➤ Grab the show notes at melanie.education/listen18 ⭐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 ...
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    38 mins
  • Episode 17: Engage Students to Listen & Learn with Alexa™

    Episode 17: Engage Students to Listen & Learn with Alexa™
    Feb 16 2022

    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 Intelligence) in your classroom.

    Wait until you see how student engagement skyrockets in your classroom when you use Alexa™ AI in all parts of your classroom!

    Also, pay attention to my part about student privacy when using Alexa™ in the classroom.

    Check out the shownotes at https:edtechenergy.org/listen17 OR
    https:melanie.education/listen 17

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    Music License: Jamendo Licensing Standard License - Title: Inspiring Corporate Artist: CORPORATEMUSIC Album: Corporate A
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    28 mins
  • Episode 16: Give your Students VOICE a Clever Way!

    Episode 16: Give your Students VOICE a Clever Way!
    Jan 19 2022
    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. Plus, it’s a 21st century way to get our students to write and speak! Grab the FREE Podcast Assessment Chart here: https://engage.edtechenergy.org/podcast_assessment_chart Links mentioned in the Episode 16 podcast: Source for Podcast Statistics - https://www.oberlo.com/blog/podcast-statistics Podcast Channel and Episode creators:       Online Voice Recorder Podomatic Podbean Alitu Anchor FM Buzzsprout Thinglink – to create a narrated infographic podcast Text-to-Speech .mp3 file generators: voleeta text2speech TTSFree Recording & Editing Software: Audacity Design Cover Art: Canva ➤ Grab the show notes at melanie.education/listen16 ⭐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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    23 mins
  • Episode 15: POUNCE OUT the Plagiarism in your Classroom

    Episode 15: POUNCE OUT the Plagiarism in your Classroom
    Dec 10 2021

    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 secondary education classrooms.

    However, since the Pandemic school closings gave our students lots of freedom when completing assignments, they didn’t experience before in their education unless they have been home on a medical sick leave, plagiarism, unfortunately, has become a more normal occurrence in our student writing assignment submissions now that we are back in school. Learn how to create an Intellectual Property Respect Culture!

    Get the Episode 15 Show Notes at: 
    edtechenergy.org/listen15 OR melanie.education/listen15

    Grab the FREE Plagiarism Prevention Checklist here!

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

     
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    25 mins
  • Episode 14: So YES, I Need Some EdTech Training, But Where to Find It

    Episode 14: So YES, I Need Some EdTech Training, But Where to Find It
    Nov 16 2021

    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 PD opportunity!

    Grab today's episode 14 show notes with all the EdTech PD links (over 50!) at http://edtechenergy.org/listen14 or http://melanie.education/listen14.

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