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David J. Blaize

Director of Digital Skills Development & Instruction

Evansville Goodwill Industries, Inc

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I always get a lot out of my activities with EdTech, but SkillBlox is showing up at just the right time for me. I look forward to how this project blossoms over time.

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Hello, I joined ETMS#5 from Quebec, Canada.

Enjoyed the experience and give all my support to this OER intiative.

Good job!

Tami

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Karen Strange

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Shanise Watson

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Charleen

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Kate Herzog, Librarian and Lifelong Learner

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Mary Maker

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Trident Literacy Association

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Veronica Pavon Baker

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Hello everyone! My name is Jose Adorno and I am the Distance Learning Coordinator in CT. I have participated in 3 EdTech Maker Spaces and it has been a wonderful experience getting to know new faces from around the globe that are full of positive energy and that share the same passions!

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505 Buffalo Run Road, Shepherdsville, KY

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505 Buffalo Run Road, Shepherdsville, KY

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505 Buffalo Run Road, Shepherdsville, KY

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Hi, I am Doyle Adams with Bullitt County Adult Education

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Echo Salisbury - MD Department of Labor!

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My name is Laurie Hoffman and I am the Program Manager with Literacy DuPage. I have participated in several EdTech maker space projects building a resource hub for the field of adult education. The planning, organization, structure, and exceptional support offered to make every project a success by the EdTech Maker Space team is unique to these projects. Strong communication, teamwork, and flexibility  helped ensure that everyone was working toward the same goal and that the project stayed on schedule. The resources I have learned about are invaluable!

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Hardin/LaRue Adult Education
Laura Lang

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Hazard Community & Technical College: Hazard Campus, Community College Drive, Hazard, KY

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Hazard Community & Technical College: Hazard Campus, Community College Drive, Hazard, KY

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Hazard Community & Technical College: Hazard Campus, Community College Drive, Hazard, KY

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Hello from Muhlenberg County! This is Tonya Phelps, and I am the Distance Learning Lead for Madisonville Community College - Adult Education which includes Hopkins County as well as Muhlenberg.  I teach ABE, GED, and Corrections here in Muhlenberg.  We have offered online virtual and hybrid adult education classes since 2020, and our students love the option of learning virtually.  I look forward to sharing some of the activities developed in the Maker Space with my coworkers and students!

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Maysville Community & Technical College: Maysville Campus, U.S. 68 Business, Maysville, KY

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Maysville Community & Technical College: Maysville Campus, U.S. 68 Business, Maysville, KY

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Maysville Community & Technical College: Maysville Campus, U.S. 68 Business, Maysville, KY

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Hello, My name is Tonya Cobb. I've been an adult educator for nearly 25 years. I've held positions in the classroom and out of it including training new teachers, curriculum lead, accreditation, and all things adult ed related, frankly. I am the Distance Ed Lead, Canvas Lead, and EL Civics Lead for Santa Monica Adult Education Center.

Outside of Adult Ed, I teach credit ESL at Cypress College and Coastline Community College.

I am proud to have been a part of the the Digital Maker Space Project. I have learned so much--so much that my head is still spinning, but in a wonderfully exciting way. I can't wait to share all that I have learned with others and implement my new learning in my classroom(s).

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Greetings from Houston, TX
My name is Hyo Kwon. I work with Adult Education-currently helping with Distance Learning for ESL students. I've learned so much from Ed Tech Maker Spaces and it was very helpful. I'm so thankful to be a part of this training and to learn from each other. Looking forward to the next one!

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Owensboro Community & Technical College: Downtown Campus, Frederica Street, Owensboro, KY

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Owensboro Community & Technical College: Downtown Campus, Frederica Street, Owensboro, KY

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Owensboro Community & Technical College: Downtown Campus, Frederica Street, Owensboro, KY

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My name is Michelle Finch, Distance Learning Lead, GED/ELL Instructor, and Ohio County Coordinator at SkillTrain, Owensboro Community and Technical College. I have been teaching for nearly 30 years, with 7 of those at OCTC. I teach several classes (online/in-person), track our digital resource usage, create digital resources, and manage the Ohio County office. I'm addicted to learning! I  participated in the project: Digital Resilience and I have learned so much. I am utilizing some of the resources that I learned about during the project with my classes and I am looking forward to learning more. A great teacher never stops learning! Teach on, my friends!

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Adair County Adult Education Center, Campbellsville Road, Columbia, KY

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Adair County Adult Education Center, Campbellsville Road, Columbia, KY

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Adair County Adult Education Center, Campbellsville Road, Columbia, KY

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Hi everyone! My name is Mary Ford and I work with Adair and Taylor County Adult Education. I am the Distance Learning Lead and Corrections Instructor for our offices. I teach GED Classes, MRT Classes, and manage the social media pages for three of our counties in our Consortium!

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Hello I am Verinda L. Rose ABE Lead Instructor II for KYAE-Morehead State-Morgan County in West Liberty, KY. I've been in Adult Education for 19 years, instructing 17 of those years. This is the most fun PLC I've ever done and hope our end project becomes a staple in all educational aspects of technology. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this PLC, the facilitators are great and the information is so very helpful. Hope to do another one next year!

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Bonjour!
I am Robin Long, a provincial vocational education consultant and former culinary teacher. I work with trade teachers in Quebec. I participated in my first Open Resource Maker Project where we created digital vocabulary slide decks and learning activities. I learned about different inclusivity approaches and got to use some fun tools. It was a great experience working with other educators from the adult sector and I got to participate in a great initiative to being digital literacy skills to the adult population!

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I'm Mary Gaston, a 🐝BUSY semi-retired adult educator, and I 😍love Maker Spaces!   Sometimes I participate, and other times I facilitate.  But I ALWAYS learn so much, and how wonderful that when we all give some time and talent to the space, we all receive so much in return.

I hope to 👀see you in a Maker Space soon!

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Librarian, LifeLong Learner, Retired [temporarily]

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Laura Lang
from Hardin/LaRue Adult Education

Let me know how I can help you walk the line.

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I'm Monica Leong and I've participated in the Let's Build a Digital Skills Library sessions in Spring 2021 and the TSTM/SkillBlox sessions in Summer 2022. I've learned all kinds of things about digital skills, accessibility, alignment with standards, and plain language, too. It's always rewarding to gather with other educators in MakerSpaces to learn and create and share.

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Southcentral Kentucky Community & Technical College: Franklin-Simpson Center, 175 Davis Drive, Franklin, KY

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Southcentral Kentucky Community & Technical College: Franklin-Simpson Center, 175 Davis Drive, Franklin, KY

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Southcentral Kentucky Community & Technical College: Franklin-Simpson Center, 175 Davis Drive, Franklin, KY

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Ray Haddix

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Helloooooo!

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Dr. Juanita Fisher
MD TESOL Maker Space
Building a TSTM Library
Digital Skills Glossary
Making the color vowels tool was exciting!

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Hi I am Michelle Brzezowski from MDI Adult Education, Maine. I am the teacher and education coordinator. My program is very small and its just me and my director. So I pretty much do everything except administering HiSET test, and I do not involve myself with the enrichment programs. I teach HiSET, ELL, ABE, College Prep, and everything in between. I participated in the digital literacy makerspace spring and summer of 2021, and also some of the TSTM makerspaces.

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Mt. Desert Island Adult & Community Education

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I'm Laurie Hansen Cardona, instructor of English language learners at Milwaukee Area Technical College. I've participated in two of the Maker Space projects -- one, curating OER and aligning to 4 TSTM topics, and the second, where I designed two resusable, adaptable activities using technology that was new to me. I continue learning!

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Erin Watters
English Language Fellow
Ed Consultant @ Third Spaces LLC

I love having the SkillBlox to help me gather resources to work with my learners.

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Goodwill of Western Missouri & Eastern Kansas

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Goodwill of Western Missouri & Eastern Kansas

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Laura Stockton, Digital Inclusion Instructor
lstockton@mokangoodwill.org
Adult digital skills content creator and instructor

We teach basic digital awareness and skills in an effort to improve digital literacy, as well as various training programs to help fill the skills gap in Kansas and Missouri. Goodwill also has advocacy and digital navigation assistance, helping our clients get devices and broadband access.

I love DRAW MakerSpaces because I learn new resources. The Digital Skills Library and the newly created resources are so helpful as I'm developing new curricula and improving the ones we have. I am proud to be a small part of this.

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Xavier Muñoz, Director of Academic Programs and Student Services at the English Empowerment Center.

My first EdTech Maker space was the Marshall Leveled Reading Program. I've participated in several others since then, with special fondness for the ESL Story Bank that I co-facilitated - https://www.crowdedlearning.org/our-work/eslstorybank

Through EdTech Maker Spaces, I've learned about open educational resources, creative commons licensing, edtech tools, and resource evaluation. My favorite thing has been getting to meet so many inspiring and passionate adult educators and to encourage teachers in my program to become part of the CrowdED community!

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My name is Ginger Kosobucki. I'm the English Learning Director at the Immigrant Welcome Center here in Indianapolis. I participated in ETMS: Building a TSTM Library. It was educational to see the evaluation and alignment process and learn about the library of free resources available...and it was fun!

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J. Fisher
Evaluation of OER was an amazing experience! I explored so many different resources and rethought some I was already using.

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Hi, I'm Eleanor Cass (Nell). I'm a volunteer online ESOL/Adult Ed tutor in northeastern Connecticut. It's been great fun participating in EdTech Maker Spaces 2 and 3!!

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Julia Lohla, Adult ESL instructor for the Pathway to Literacy Program and Indianapolis Public Library English Conversation Circles
- Nov/Dec 2022 Maker Space
- I focused on aligning resources for the Workforce Prep category.
- I loved discovering all the great free resources out there, especially The Change Agent!

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Tiffany Lee, Distance Learning Lead Specialist (R9ESC) & Learning Support Specialist (TCALL)

My first Makerspace was the creating resources using Reading Skills for Today's Adults with integrating Google Forms (Quizzes), Quizlet (vocabulary practice), and putting it all on Wakelets.  That was the best fun ever and I've been hooked ever since!

I love aligning and creating, but I really like sharing that I've been apart of the experience to others in the field as well as the resources that have been created and how it can be integrated into their instruction. I've also started building my own lessons and website to incorporate all that I've learned.

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Hello from Illinois. My  name is Evelyn Cassano. I’m an EdTech Makerspace super fan! Since 2021, I have participated in four projects. Each one has given me an opportunity to work collaboratively with other educators around the U.S. We get to explore and learn various classroom technologies and help build our students’ digital literacy skills. Every ETMS gets better and better. I’m thankful to be a part of this amazing group of educators.

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Hello! This is my second CrowdED ETMS, and I've really enjoyed meeting others in the community, learning about resources and their evaluation/alignment, and helping to create a website for health practice. Check it out!

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This Website is Only for English Practice: If you have a health concern, please ask a healthcare provider.

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Hi. I'm Lien Harris and I teach ESL in Dover, NH. I participated in Cohort 3 of the TSTM training, and I've done three of the EdTech Maker Spaces. I've learned so much and have really enjoyed being a part of these projects!

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Made with the "I can't draw" AI feature- Prompt was Watercolor of 66-year-old white woman teaching ESL. 

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Hi from Sherwood Forest, Los Angeles, CA

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Hi from Sherwood Forest, Los Angeles, CA

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Imagining the joy of working on descriptive writing to generate AI images. 😉 Yes, that's how I roll... (ALT TEXT: Watercolor image of a white older woman with a short gray bob and glasses, gesturing to a bulletin board with words and images meant to represent parts of an ESL lesson. Words are greeked. ]

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Hi all! My name's Leah Gregory and I work in Adult Education in Boston! I've been involved in TSTM for the past couple years and am excited to be working in this CrowdED Learning space too!

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Marisa Sedillo

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This reading app as the result of our very first EdTech Maker Space!!!!

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Jeff Goumas, Digital Learning Sr. Technical Advisor, World Education. So excited to be part of this amazing community of educators who are committed to expanding access to quality, open content!!! 😊

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This reading app as the result of our very first EdTech Maker Space!!!!

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Hi, everyone! I'm Rachel Riggs, Digital Learning Specialist for World Ed. I've been involved in every CrowdED Learning Maker Space so far. I've learned new edtech tools, more about OER and Creative Commons licensing, and the power, dedication, and creativity of educators (my fellow makers!). I helped make supplemental activities for the ESL Story Banks. Check it out: https://www.crowdedlearning.org/our-work/eslstorybank