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Community Member Introductions

Raynise — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 21:37:02 GMT

Introduce yourselves. Please share your name, role, district, an area of expertise that you have and one thing you hope to gain through this community.

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NickPolyak — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:15:54 GMT

Hi Everyone - I'm Nick Polyak, Superintendent for the Leyden High Schools in Illinois. I'm looking forward learning from everyone in this group!

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Ahrosser — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:27:02 GMT

Welcome! Can't wait to engage with you in this awesome community!

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Raynise — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 22:03:36 GMT

Welcome Nick! We are excited to have you in our learning community.

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RadhikaZahedi — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:25:50 GMT

Hello Everyone!

I am Radhika Zahedi, Director at The Green Acres Academy Schools in Mumbai. Very excited to connect and learn with this wonderful community!

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omarcktell-asb — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:01:17 GMT

Hi everyone, Oren Marcktell here from The American School of Barcelona. I am the IT Director at the school, we are a PK-12 private school located in Barcelona. Areas of expertise are systems management, Google Administration, and software development projects. We have restructured our IT department to have a small but effective software development team that creates custom software for our school.

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reidjohnathan — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:07:58 GMT

Hello everyone. My name is John Reid and I am the IT director at a community college in Kansas. Areas of expertise include server, network, VoIP and cloud management. I am looking forward to learning with this community.

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chrislehmann — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:13:41 GMT

Hello all -

Chris Lehmann - founder of Science Leadership Academy and CEO of SLA Schools in Philadelphia, PA. Very happy to be here and share with others who are looking at the future of learning!

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AWhite — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:30:29 GMT

Hi,

My name is Anne White and I am the ICT Coordinator in a very large primary school in Malahide, Dublin. We have 920 children age 4-13 - Junior Infants - Sixth Year. I am also a full time class teacher, teaching 2nd class so 8-9 year olds. We have been using google for the last 10 years as teachers and in the last 5 years have started using chromobooks with our students as their student devices. Given the size of our school we do not have one-to-one access but instead each level have access to a class set of 30 Chromebooks. We now have excellent and reliable wifi so internet access is good. Our plan is now focused on constructive learning and use of the Chromebooks for active learning. We are having difficulty accessing the play store and downloading apps to the chromebooks so I'm hoping that through engagement with these forums I'll be able to ask more specific questions and get answers for our queries

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Gifty_1 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:33:04 GMT

Hi Everyone! My name is Gifty Francis, I'm a Deputy Headteacher in London, UK. I'm looking forward to sharing edtech ideas with this community to support teaching and learning.

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AWhite — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:39:32 GMT

Hi,

My name is Anne White and I am the ICT Coordinator in a very large primary school in Malahide, Dublin. We have 920 children age 4-13 - Junior Infants - Sixth Year. I am also a full time class teacher, teaching 2nd class so 8-9 year olds. We have been using google for the last 10 years as teachers and in the last 5 years have started using chromobooks with our students as their student devices. Given the size of our school we do not have one-to-one access but instead each level have access to a class set of 30 Chromebooks. We now have excellent and reliable wifi so internet access is good. Our plan is now focused on constructive learning and use of the Chromebooks for active learning. We are having difficulty accessing the play store and downloading apps to the Chromebook so I'm hoping that through engagement with these forums I'll be able to ask more specific questions and get answers for our queries

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PetroliaTech — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:18:32 GMT

Hello, everyone! My name is Wendy Coker, and I am the Technology Director for Petrolia CISD, a small Pre-K through 12th grade public school in north Texas. I am a one person IT team that does everything from computer repair, network management, budgets, acquisitions, and even managing our social media! It can be exhausting, and I am always looking for areas to learn more. I look forward to everything I will learn from all of you!

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Chrissy — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:53:09 GMT

Good afternoon, everyone! My name is Chrissy Franklin, Executive Director of Western Heights Learning Center, a nonprofit in Albuquerque, NM. We serve ages 2 through 5th grade and provide community based home visiting services. We have an IT individual that mostly helps with hardware and setup issues, but I manage just about everything else. I am always looking for innovative ways to streamline our processes and move to a more digital filing system. I look forward to learning from this group and sharing ideas!

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heath_durbin — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 22:22:17 GMT

WOW, amazing peers to be with. My name is Heath Durbin, Esq., I'm the Dean of Students for a small College in Southern California. I'm not an expert in any filed, but knowable in many. I'm hoping to help improve our use of technology in the class room.

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terrykorte — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:30:39 GMT

Hi everyone. I'm Terry Korte and I'm the Managing Director of Technology for Edmonton Public Schools - one of the larger public school districts in Canada (120,000 K-12 students, 215 schools). We've been using GWFE and Chromebooks for over a decade with staff and students and our Tech department handles everything from the hardware to support to licensing to teacher PD and policy development. Looking forward to learning from all of you on this journey!

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Ahrosser — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:22:40 GMT

Welcome to the Community!!!

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Mike-Abello — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:51:01 GMT

Good day to all! I'm Michael David John E. Abello, you can call me Mike for short. I am the EdTech Coordinator for Sacred Heart School - Atene de Cebu, Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines.

We have been using Google for Education for about a decade now. We also have some Chomebooks and recently got Tablet carts. I look forward to learning from all of you.

More power. God bless us all!

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kdemland — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:29:30 GMT

Hello everyone! I'm excited to join this group and learn from all of you.

I am the Coordinator of Instructional Technology for Brazosport ISD. We are located about an hour south of Houston, Texas. We serve over 11,000 Prek-12th grade students and have 16 campuses. We adopted GWFE over 10 years ago and have been 1:1 chromebooks since approximately 2016.

My areas of expertise surround classroom technology integration, professional development, 1:1, and Chromebooks. I look forward to learning more from this group!

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M_Culver — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:05:37 GMT

My name is Melissa Culver. I've been in education for 24 years. I am presently the Technology Coordinator for a school district in California; we oversee charter schools. I wear several hats. We've got several projects going right now. Thanks for the add.

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Shahinaz — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:18:23 GMT

Hello fellows,

I'm Shahinaz associate professor of Educational Technology, city Ajman University at UAE, I spend the past 4years between like minded community members and leaders of GEGs and it's really a treasure.

Nice knowing you all.