User:Ndoiron

I am volunteering for Hello Laptop, Hello World's XO deployments in the Boston area. During the school year I am studying civil engineering at Carnegie Mellon.

In addition to OLPC and other ICT4D solutions, I work on GIS/mapping projects.

ICT4D Blog Reading List

GIS Blog Reading List

Contact

Please edit the talk page or e-mail ndoiron _at_ cmu.edu

Current Work

• Making lesson ideas for Hello Laptop, Hello World drawing from content list, and several activities.

• Major update to Map (activity) including offline mapping for Haiti and Uganda

• citizen science projects

• DNA Lab showing inherited traits through phenotype (cartoon lizards) and genotype (simulated DNA strand)

Prior Work for the XO

• Adding bar, pie, line, and scatter charts to SocialCalc application
  • Test (in Firefox or XO's Browse) here
  • Users' Guide

• Mapping applications, introducing students to GIS and mapping
  • Intro to Mapping Technology
  • Explored SVG maps for classes without internet access

• Created HippoMath with eToys
• Patch for the Geoquiz application

OLPCorps

Technical lead for an OLPCorps team - unfortunately our team was rejected, but we made it to finalists

See my team's OLPCorps proposal here: OLPCorps Carnegie Mellon/Teachers' College/Williams College Kenya