Melanie Wiscount

Melanie Wiscount is a Microsoft Partners in Learning 2011 U.S. Forum educator winner, a 2011 Siemens STEM Institute Fellow and a business/computer technology educator at the Palmyra Area High School in Palmyra, Pennsylvania. Melanie is also an educational technology doctoral candidate at Wilkes University, Wilkes Barre, PA beginning her dissertation in gesture-based learning according to learning styles using Kinect in the middle level STEM classroom. She trains teachers as an educational technology professional development designer and facilitator and has presented at international, national, state and regional conferences as well as delivered online webinars to teachers and administrators. Melanie was awarded the Educators’ Choice Award at the Microsoft Partners in Learning 2011 Innovative Educators Forum in Redmond, WA and represented the U.S. at the 2011 Global Forum in Washington, D.C. She has teaching experience at the middle and high school levels as well as higher education. She holds five PA teaching licenses (Business, Computer and Information Technology K-12, Library Science K-12, English as a Second Language Program Specialist K-12, Middle Level Mathematics, and Instructional Technology K-12). She also holds a teaching post-professional license in Virginia (Business Education, Library Media and Middle Level Mathematics) as well as District of Columbia teaching license in Business Education. Melanie is a guest blogger for Discovery Education/Siemens STEM Institute and Microsoft TeachTec blogs.