Hello from Baltimore, Maryland!

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Good day, my fellow machinists!

My name is Chris, and have been within the machining vocation (manual and automated/CNC) since my freshman year of high school. I have earned various certifications, as well as my specific Associates of Applied Sciences in Machine Tool Technology, and then went on to receive my undergraduate, and graduate degrees in Vocational Education/Career Technical Education with the machine tool technology vocation as my trade. I have taught for 18 years, middle school through graduate level (600), and currently teach distant learning (online) education theory, and assessment courses (and also achieved my Doctorate in Education). It has been a journey for me to work eight-plus hours a day within a typical job-shop, and then put on a suit to teach… and say I am a machinist.

First, this is the best online environment to learn (anything) that I have seen within the online distant learning realm! It is excellent with appropriate content, resources, videos, and this forum. My advice is to take all that is shared. I use this content daily to teach students problem solving for either FIRST Robotics, and also the SAE Baja Challenge (Go Jays!). The example projects are extremely similar to those that may be designed within the real-world! Kudos to Titan, and his staff for creating such a resource. Gather as much as possible, and also ask (learn the ‘tricks’ of the trade). I learn within my shop daily, as well as gotten some good stuff from this site!

Again, I am located in Baltimore… and work in a very small job shop that makes all kinds of crazy pieces for various clients on the East coast. Reach out to cfox16@jh.edu if you would like to get in touch!

Good luck to you all, and don’t be intimidated to eat metal!

C. Fox

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Dr. Fox,
I sent you an invite to a topic about creating assignments in a LMS environment. I currently use Canvas and acquired a Moodlecloud account. You mentioned online delivery, I would love to hear how you deliver theory and project assignments.

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Great to see you hear welcom and have a great day.

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Good morning, Doc! I’m born and raised just south of you in Elkridge, where I am also working in a small production shop. I am quite new to the industry after decided to take a major career jump at 33 and I’m glad to hear your prospective on the material here.

Carl

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Hi Stephen,

I use Blackboard for my classes, but have also used Canvas and Moodlecloud for my online teaching (as well as allowing my students to create their online environments). I will comment within your topic thread on how I instruct teachers to deliver content and engage students to complete project assignments.

Chris

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Hey Carl,

Feel free to reach out to me via e-mail, cfox16@jh.edu

Where are you at within Elkridge?

Chris

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I sent you an email but, for anyone else, we’re off RT 1, by RT 100, behind the post office.

Carl