[OLPC-Philippines] Visiting fellow (and first post 8^)

[rayb at apc.edu.ph]

Hi, all,

I have been lurking on the list a while and this looks like as good a time as any to speak out.  I am Ray Baquirin, a teacher at Asia Pacific College.  As a teacher and father of a 10-year old son I see the potential for OLPC and Sugar to revolutionize teaching computer programming. My computing experience is best described as eclectic; a lot of RPG early on, then Smalltalk and Scheme when I was doing my Master's, currently mostly Java.  I have used Python for a first course in programming but not done any real projects in it. We have used Moodle for some time here at APC; perhaps I can help with the Sugar-Moodle integration (though I'm not a PHP programmer either). Or recruit some students to develop educational Flash content--we have some good young Flash programmers.

I would have loved to attend the meeting but I have work the whole day Saturday. You guys have fun and tell us all about it 8^).

Servus,

Ray