User:Msaunders

Name

Mick Saunders

Job

Job: High School teacher.

Location

Moira Secondary School

Belleville

Ontario

Canada

KOK 3E0

School Web Site: Moira Secondary School

Contact me at: msaunders@hpedsb.on.ca

Interest in OLPC

With support from our administration, our school purchased 5 XO laptops during the first 'Give one Get one' initiative. We use the machines to work on semester end projects as well as investigating non-Windows operating systems.

We are keen to make global connections with schools in other parts of the world using the same technology.

Projects we have tried so far include:

• Adding the Mohawk language to the Speak activity.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Adding_mohawk_Speak_activity.zip

• Skype on the XO.
• Investigating teaching introductory programming with Scratch and TurtleArt
• Using the measure activity to monitor temperature/heart rate.

We are always looking for additional projects to work on.

Brief Background:

• 1967: Born Grimsby, UK.
• 1984 to 1992: Cartographic Surveyor, National Mapping Agency, UK (Ordnance Survey)
• 1992 to 1995: BSc (hons) Computer Science and Geography, Chester College (University of Liverpool) UK
• 1995 to 1996: PGCE, Keele University, teacher training, computer studies/geography.
• 1996 to 1997: VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) Kitui, Kenya, worked on implementing teaching of IT skills in rural high school (project fell through due to lack of funding.
• 1997 to 1998: High school teacher, Henry Gotch Comprehensive, Kettering, UK (taught computer science and IT)
• 1998 to 2000: Census Cartographer, Solomon Islands National Population Census. Set up Geographic Information System (GIS) for producing enumeration maps and analysing post census results.
• 2000 to 2003: High school teacher, York Memorial Collegiate, Toronto, Canada. (taught computer science, computer engineering and IT)
• 2003 to present: High school teacher, Moira Secondary School, Belleville, Ontario, Toronto, Canada. (I currently teach computer science, computer engineering, IT and occasionally math and geography)