Episode 16: Give your Students VOICE a Clever Way!
Release Date: 01/19/2022
How to Catapult Student Engagement by using Microsoft FlipGrid Videos
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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: ✤ Microsoft FlipGrid: ✤ Transcript: ✤ Valuable FREE FlipGrid Teacher Guide to get you started: What makes FlipGrid a...
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Episode 20: PBL—Use RUBRICS to Empower Your Students
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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...
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Episode 19: How do Students Need to FEEL in your classroom to Want to ENGAGE in your course and content?
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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 [email protected]. - ➤ Grab the show notes at ⭐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...
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Episode 18: Top Strategies to Transform Personalized Learning in your Classroom
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Go to this Episode 18's Show Notes at: OR 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 [email protected]. . You will need to pay to use this survey,...
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Episode 17: Engage Students to Listen & Learn with Alexa™
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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 OR ...
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Episode 16: Give your Students VOICE a Clever Way!
The EdTechEnergy Podcast
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: Links mentioned in the Episode 16 podcast: Source for Podcast Statistics - Podcast Channel and Episode creators: – to...
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Episode 15: POUNCE OUT the Plagiarism in your Classroom
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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...
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Episode 14: So YES, I Need Some EdTech Training, But Where to Find It
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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! You'll get over 50 EdTech PD links to check out!
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Episode 13: Why EdTech PD is a Necessary Part of Teaching after the Pandemic?
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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 EdTech PD should be a MUST for every teacher to invest time, money, and intention. The benefits for both teachers and students are outstanding! Checkout this podcast episode's show notes at OR . Grab the FREE EdTech Skills Checklist here: Grab the Student TASL Approach to Attribution Cheat Sheet here: ...
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Episode 12: Be on Top of Copyright, Fair Use, Creative Commons, and Public Domain in your Classroom
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Teaching Copyright, Fair Use, Creative Commons, and Public Domain in the 21st century when our society and education institutions are laden with media should have the utmost importance for teachers in teaching our students how to share and use media in their education and personal lives.
info_outlineIn 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
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Source for Podcast Statistics - https://www.oberlo.com/blog/podcast-statistics
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