User:ScottSwanson

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Who am I?

My name is Scott Swanson, and I am the Strategic Technology Coordinator at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA).

Background

I have been an OLPC advocate since I first saw the OLPC protoypes and met OLPC staff in person at NECC 2006. I started shortly thereafter contributing to the work on getting the OLPC dev image working on Parallels for MacOS X so I could start working with it myself (and let others do the same). In Fall 2007, after Mel '03 came back to speak on OLPC at IMSA, I became the go-to person onsite for OLPC involvment.

Projects

• Emulation on MacOS X using Parallels Desktop

• IMSA OLPC Affiliate

I am the club sponsor for the IMSA OLPC affiliate. More info forthcoming.

• SIR Advisor

I am the in-house advisor for Student Inquiry and Research pursuant to the OLPC project. My current advisees are:

• Meg '09: Development of a computer-based collaborative storytelling game for learning foreign languages

Note that last names have been removed for FERPA and COPPA compliance.

Contacting me

If you'd like to contact me:

• Email: scott (at) imsa (dot) edu
• Jabber: scott (at) imsa (dot) edu
• AIM: imsascott
• WWW: http://staff.imsa.edu/~scott