Technology Showcase
Throughout my years teaching and learning, I've compiled some of my most proudest work. I've grouped these documents by Professional Development, Technology Integration, and Professional Reflection highlighting my most important values and career focus. Please explore the links below and reach out if you would like to learn more about my graduate and leadership work.
Professional
Development
Technology can be overwhelming and change can be scary. I surveyed my school community to discover and learn more about what it takes for teachers and students to buy-in to new trends, such as tech-integrated lessons. I'm proud to show my learned skill of surveying colleagues, analyzing needs, and problem solving.
I believe it is beneficial and important for teachers, and students, to create and maintain an ePortfolio. Similar to this website, I created a professional development outline for walking teachers through the creation of their own ePortfolio using Google Sites to potentially model for and guide students. Reviewing the professional development, you'll notice my learned skill of creating and adapting differentiated professional development for adult learners.
In this artifact, you'll see how I am now able to more effectively use formative and summative assessments to enhance students learning. I learned how to provide opportunities to reflect and collaborate to enhance currently used assessments and explore digital assessment tools, as well as comfortably integrate effective assessments.
Technology
Integration
Our school's tech team had the idea to create an escape room for our 6th graders. However, I was honored with the task of creating and supporting a more tech-approach with students using interactive notebooks to report and reflect on their experience, then later to create their own Escape Room.
I studied student and teacher motivation for technology integration in the classroom. What makes a student finish typing their paper instead of playing online games? The visual below demonstrates my interest and acquired ability to use research and immediately act on the data to support teachers, meeting their learning needs, to effectively integrate technology.
This artifact showcases my ability to integrate a more user-friendly digital version to better support and offer services to our staff. Replacing the hassle of going to the support facility, teachers can assess themselves simply using the platform already used for other needs. This accessible tile is not created, yet, but demonstrates my creativity and motivation to support teachers in and out of the classroom.
Professional
Reflection
I owe a lot of my professional growth to learning how to routinely and effectively reflect. In particular, after reviewing student assessments, I generated a multitude of questions to reconsider and re-evaluate the purpose and appropriateness for each question.
I'm proud to share my learning philosophy to not only model how I learned to use technology to enhance my reflections, but to convert my thoughts and values into a more inviting visual representation using Powtoon, a tool I now use in my own classroom for instructional purposes.
While I've always enjoyed writing, reflecting on my EDventure along the way has benefit me more than a journal. This blog will showcase the important aspects of my journey including my experience in education around the world as well as my growth in knowledge and experiences with (and without) technology.
Software, Programs & Apps
Over the years I've tinkered with and integrated plenty of apps, programs, and software in my own classroom as well as supporting my colleagues in their classrooms. Whether on an iPad, Dell computer, or phone, I can comfortably use the apps below for educational purposes. Feel free to reach out if you'd like support in implementing one of these programs into your instruction.