I enjoyed the challenge of selecting useful and purposeful technology to aid in the teaching of content knowledge. Within this webpage, I revised my district-provided curriculum to become technology-rich, while still meeting the common core standards. This artifact also shows my ability to creatively implement project-based learning summative assessment that allows students to demonstrate their 21st Century Skills in communication and technology literacy.

On this Google Classroom page, I created an online publishing platform based on the Units of Study feature article unit. In this artifact, I demonstrate implement technology into the curriculum through student collaboration and reflection, as well as delivering content knowledge.

• To access this classroom, go to this Google Classroom link and type in the class code sjlham7. You can also visit this summary page on the project.

While learning a new skill is never the easiest, learning about new applications is a necessary struggle in the technology world. In this blog post, I had the challenge of incorporating a maker space tool into a lesson that allowed students to play with the tool, while also meeting the lesson's standards. In this artifact, I demonstrate my ability to use a combination of technology and creativity to aid student critical thinking skills, as well as demonstrate proficiency in content knowledge.

On this website, I used research surrounding creativity as a rationale to support best practices within the classroom. This artifact shows my creativity in ways to communicate information to viewers in an engaging way while using technology, as well as problem-solve issues within the classroom. I presented these best practices in ways that could be easily understood and implemented by colleagues. This artifact also demonstrates my leadership skills through the advocacy of best practices.

Part of being a leader in the educational community is reframing ideas in a new light. In this presentation, I created a professional development session on how to incorporate creativity into the classroom in a realistic way. This artifact shows my leadership to provoke my audience to think in new ways, my communication skills to share information in an engaging way, and my creativity to lead my audience through a set of activities to challenge their thinking.

In this presentation, I created an interactive introduction to the idea of cognitive load. In this artifact, I demonstrate the creativity to develop an infographic that effectively shares the information within the presentation, my technology integration skills to incorporate interactive links within the presentation, and my leadership skills to demonstrate competency in a skill to be presented to other professionals.

Within any field, there will always be challenges that leaders need to solve. In this blog post, I researched the  "great migration" of teachers within the past decade and how it is impacting schools. In this artifact, I demonstrate my technology knowledge by embedding multimedia pieces within the presentation, my problem-solving skills by researching an issue and proposing a solution, and my leadership skills by advocating for the needs of educators and students.