Get to Know the NM DELT Team

Mission Statement: We Enhance Education through Technology.

Vision Statement: To Create a Culture of Change to Embrace Technology and Innovation in Adult Education.

Meet the Team: 
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Tina Hite manages the DELT project as well as the Adult Education Center at UNM-Valencia. As an instructor, she initiated a “guided internet course” long before there were guidelines to do so in Adult Basic Education. She attended Project IDEAL workshops in 2007, 2010 and 2014. With training and support of Project IDEAL, she provided DL 101: Teaching Adult Learners at a Distance training to mose programs in the state. She also taught DL 104: Study Group on Persistence as a pilot and then as an offering to NM programs.

Tina primarily supports administrative issues for distance/hybrid learning.

Contact Information:

Office: 505-925-8920

Email: tinan@unm.edu

Google Hangouts: Tina Hite, tinanunm@gmail.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tina.newby.77

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Don Dutton is an adult educator dedicated to student achievement. He has been a teacher, administrator and trainer and has worked with technology in the classroom since 2001. He developed and facilitated a distance learning program at Doña Ana Community College and also offered the class to soldiers at White Sands Missile Range who needed to improve their ASVAB scores. Don has used online courses for HSE and ESL students to prepare for college, college entrance exams, the Workkeys exam and, of course, for an HSE exam. Don believes a hybrid model using face-to-face instruction integrated with online study is the best of both worlds and provides the greatest opportunity for students to achieve their goals as quickly as possible. He currently teaches ESL.

Don can assist with Plato instruction and program set up, Career Ready 101, EdReady and Hippocampus, Google Tools such as Classroom, Forms, Slides, Hangouts and more.

Contact Information:
Email: ddutton@nmdelt.org
Phone: 575-496-9835

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Jane Faith Schauermann, a member of the DELT Team, also holds a full-time faculty position at UNM-Taos working primarily as an instructor in the Department of Mathematics and at the Taos Education and Career Center (TECC). Faith has earned her Master of Arts in Education at NMSU with a focus on Curriculum & Instruction and Learning Design & Technology. She also utilizes the Aleks program in post-secondary courses and enjoys the benefits that hybrid and distance learning opportunities offer our diverse student population. Let her share how she has used Google tools, gaming apps and the TPACK framework to integrate technology into her curriculum.

Contact Information:

Email: faith@nmdelt.org

Google Hangouts: Faith Schauermann, faith@nmdelt.org

TECC: 575-737-7370
UNM Taos: 575-737-6200

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Montserrat Oyanedel Tolmo is the English as a Second Language and Marketing and Outreach Coordinator and the Spanish HSE instructor, at the Taos Education & Career Center (TECC) at UNM Taos branch. She is originally from Chile , and as an ESL student she knows the challenges of learning a new language. As a NMDELT team member she is focusing in developing new Spanish HSE curriculum , researching and implementing effective ESL materials and software. She is eager to spread the benefits of technology and distance education with students and educators through the state. 

Montserrat also can assist you with Edmentum PLATO, Career Ready 101, Spanish HSE and ESL Resources, Google for Education Tools, and accessing free resources.

Contact Information:
Email: moyanedel@unm.edu/ moyanedel@nmdelt.org
Google Hangouts: Montserrat Oyanedel Tolmo, moyanedel@nmdelt.org
Taos Education & Career Center: 575-737-7370

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Jamie Bearden is the education director for Albuquerque GED, Inc. She is also a part-time instructor for Central New Mexico Community College’s School of Adult and General Education. She has been involved with distance education since 2010. She has led distance/classroom hybrid classes every year since, and she now serves as a member of the DELT Master Teacher team so that she can help spread distance education techniques throughout the state.

She has facilitated several workshops for the New Mexico Adult Education Association (NMAEA), as well as several in-house workshops for the staff and faculty in her program. She is also the chair of the Teacher Support Team (TST) of New Mexico.

Contact Information:
 Email: jamie@abqged.org
Google Hangouts: Jamie Bearden, jamie@abqged.org
Office Phone: (505) 907-9957

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Cash Clifton is the Foundational Mathematics Coordinator for the University of New Mexico and a mathematics instructor at Central New Mexico Community College.  Cash possesses a background in counseling and teaching math in New Mexico public schools.  He has been working in distance education since 2007, with experience in several software programs, including PLATO, ALEKS, MyMathLab, and EdReady. Cash hopes to support the expansion of distance and hybrid learning throughout the state, with an emphasis on meaningful student engagement.

Cash can assist you with best practices in distance learning, EdReady, PLATO, student engagement, communication strategies, accessing free resources, and general technology issues.

Contact Information:
Email:  cclifton4@nmdelt.org
Google Hangouts:  Cash Clifton, cclifton4@nmdelt.org
Office Phone:  (505) 224-4000 x52706 (Message)

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Terri Gustafson has a B.S. in Business Administration and Management Info Systems and received her M.A. in Education in 2007.  Her certifications include Reading Instruction and Instruction to English Language Learners. Since arriving in the Land of Enchantment 5 years ago, Terri has been teaching HSE Math as a part-time instructor for the School of Adult and General Education and has been active in several teams including ABEST,  NAEHS,  and the SAGE Web Team. Terri's vision is to inspire other educators to try new things, fail, innovate and evolve by offering creative solutions and outlets to learning.

Terri can provide support with  PLATO, incorporating technology, HSE exam prep, and content specific resources. Come "hangout" with Terri  by joining one of her monthly "Tech Talks" in Google  or check a previously recorded webinar at http://www.nmdelt.org/webinar-video-archive

Contact Information:
Email:  terri@nmdelt.org 
Phone:  505-224-4801 Ext. 51947 (Message)

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Kristen Waring has been involved with educating adults since 2008. She currently holds a part-time instructor position at the UNM-Valencia Adult Education Center in Los Lunas, where she works primarily with the Distance Education/Hybrid classes. Kristen is integrally involved in the push to transition all courses at UNM-Valencia AEC into paperless or semi-paperless classrooms using the Google Apps for Education Suite. She is also working hard towards becoming a Google for Education Certified Trainer.

Kristen can assist you with Google Apps for Education, including Google Classroom, as well as PLATO Learning Environment and Workforce Connects.
Contact Information:
Kristen M Waring
UNM-VC Adult Education Center
NM DELT Team - Master Teacher
Office: 505-925-8900 (message)
email: kwaring@nmdelt.org
Google Hangouts: Kristen Waring, kwaring@nmdelt.org