User:Ndoiron

I am a volunteer for The Kasiisi Project in Uganda and the Digital Literacy Project in the Boston area. In the fall, I will be a senior at Carnegie Mellon, studying civil engineering.

Contact

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

Current Work

• Teaching an environmental technology class with The Kasiisi Project near Fort Portal, Uganda. I will be keeping a blog to document use of the laptops with mapping, weather sensors, water quality tests, and solar power activities.

• Making lesson ideas for Digital Literacy Project in Cambridge, Boston, and Nicaragua. Helping to supply useful content and activities.

• citizen science projects

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

Prior Work for the XO

• Digital content library

• Major update to Map (activity) including offline mapping for Haiti, Uganda, and other countries. Maps can be customized using MapPacks.

• 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