User:Ndoiron/Mongolia-Background

Mongolia Background

Personal Attributes

• Native speaker of American English (I am from the state of New Hampshire, but I do not have a Boston accent)

• Experience reading, writing, transliterating (Nicholas -> Николас), and typing with a Mongolian keyboard

• Knowledge of basic Mongolian phrases, and eagerness to learn more

• I believe the best education is a global one. This idea is as important for me as it is for Mongolian students. We will all need this experience to use technology and work in international business.

• The first book which I could read was "Go Dog Go". Today, my favorite fiction books are "Inkheart" and "Transall", and my favorite non-fiction books are "The Singularity is Near" and "The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind".

• Interest in the environment, sharing of cultures, and the potential of technology.

• Technical skills in programming, website development, and content creation

• Mathematical skills with a focus in civil engineering

Past Work in Education

I have worked on many projects for OLPC. In summer 2010, I worked in Uganda for 8 weeks and taught geography and science applications. Most of the Ugandan students and teachers had English as a second or third language. Please see my photos and writing on the Uganda Experience page.

I wrote lesson plans and recommended learning websites for programs in several countries.

I revised, coded, and wrote a section for computer programming textbooks at Deitel, Inc. The programming languages were Java, Visual Basic, and Visual C#.

Past Work with OLPC Mongolia

My experience creating content for OLPC Mongolia

• GeoQuiz Mongolia: a geography puzzle game. Students name each of the aimags of Mongolia.

• Typing Turtle for Mongolia : typing tutor - included translating prompts, and localizing lessons to Mongolian keyboard and vocabulary words

• SocialCalc: a spreadsheet and graphing tool. I programmed the graphs, translated labels in the activity, and created new examples for my original lesson plans. Batkhuu Ichinkhorloo translated these lesson plans into the Mongolian language.

• Map Activity - I incorporated a Mongolian language translation into my Map activity.

Gogo.mn UB Map

In November 2009, I sent a package with my resume, Mongolian language descriptions of my projects, and my business card to gogo.mn offices in Ulaanbaatar.

It was received by an engineer at gogo.mn and he sent me an e-mail, asking if I could work on their zipcode system. I put together a few ways for them to reduce the number of points so they could display their zipcode map files.

Since then, gogo.mn has created a number of zipcodes and they **do not** run my code. But if you go to http://stat.gogo.mn/staticcontents/map/v2/js/ggmap.js you can still see the functions still are written there.

function biasPoint(p1, p2) and function compressAndMovePts(allPoints, ratio)

HappyCamel

I have created a travel map website and photo-promoting website for HappyCamel.com , a Ulaanbaatar-based trekking travel company

I was interested in traveling to Mongolia, so I spent time creating layers and interactive maps for the company. Recently, I was asked to update the maps and I did so.