This is OUR team, so present yourself!

[Mauricio Rivero]

Hello my dear partners!

Before we continue with the debate about ideas of start-ups, i like to start from the very begging US! (not United States, Us as people jejeje).

This is a bunch of good people who are trying to make a world better, so i think is important (and mandatory) to know each other and make some friendship or appeal to work together. We share the passion or likeness for Technology+Education but we have different cultures, language, ideology, expertise among other things, so it is going to be good to present ourselves and become friends or pals in this journey. I don't really know if this experience we are starting now it is going to end in a real start-up, bu what i really know is that we are going to learn a lot, and we are going to bring some really usefull tools to work in. To make this exersice even better i suggest that we add each other in Google+ so next week we can make a Hangout and spend some time talking and sharing about our lives and jobs, you can add me as Mauricio Rivero, or rivero....@gmail.com, or with the same address add me to Skype.

Other thing i want to point out is that this is not my team, this is OUR team, so if there are going to have any leader i want it to be elected by us, not me.

Ok said so, i'm going to start presenting myself (please don't delay this anymore i want to work with you ASAP):
I'm Mauricio Rivero a Software Engineer from Barranquilla Colombia, Barranquilla is the town of Shakira but i don't like her as an artist, instead, i like alternative Rock starting with Coldplay and U2 ;)

I have being working on transactional (and boring) software development using programing languages as Java, database engine like MySQL and PostgreSQL over operating systems like Linux Ubuntu, Linux CentOS and MacOS. I also worked on institutional projects on my country related to technological implementations on educational centers, one of the most nice projects was One to One computing, that is something similar to the OLPC project of Nicolas Negroponte. In this job i was give in support and training in the use of the Intel's Classmate PC and the student who had being benfit for this was girls of a Catholic School in Santa Marta Magdalena and Sabanagrande Atlantico in Colombia (near to Barranquilla). It was a blessing of experience, and the trigger for entering in the realm of education, i think that is there mucho to do to improve the quality of this area.

Another experience that i have is in the development of Learning Objects using Adobe Flash, and making some animated video clips for the web like this one for venture. I really love to animate things in flash, unfortunately i never had the experience in making games for mobile devices or the web, but i'm looking forward to this in a few experimental projects with some friends.

Lasting, i have right now running a business of consulting services for technological training and applications of information technology in educational centers (Primary and K-12), and i have now a program pilot in a small private institution on Barranquilla Atlantico (3 months of continuos wins if you ask jejejejeje).

I love playing video games (especially Nintendo) and watch sci-fi movies, in fact, the english language i learned in a very empiric way playing so many video games and watching so many movies, that's why sometimes i miss some gramatical rules while i write, sorry for that.

That's all for now, i hope to read some things about you guys in the next two days or less, so we can start to build a good start-up and learn each other. Blessing fellas!

[Mauricio Rivero]

I'm glad to meet you Stebin!

And that is a truly brave attitude, to want go back to your roots, and thanks for the book recommendation and the tip.

And the other partners WHERE ARE YOU! C'mon we need to start some kind of history over here! ;)

El lunes, 7 de mayo de 2012 11:53:18 UTC-5, Stebin John escribió:

My name is Stebin John, I am a business professional from New York working just on the outskirts of Manhattan in an area called Long Island City. 

 

I currently work for JetBlue Airways in their fuel management department juggling between the role of project manager and my day to day responsibilities.  My experience both here at JetBlue and at my prior employer, has been revolved around a blend of risk mitigation, process improvement, and project management.  Some of the more notable projects I’ve worked on are the centralization of companywide banking risks across various departments into a single platform and the acquisition and installation of a fuel management system which is set to go live at the end of June and return more than $1 million annually.

 

So you’re probably wondering what is a business guy whose background is in risk doing working on this project.  I’m a big tech enthusiast and am currently taking steps to go back to my original passion, computer science.  My wife is also a high school science teacher.  She often describes her difficulties at school with students and a teaching them and most times I can think of solutions that may help her out but unfortunately I don’t have the technical prowess or the correct network to make things happen.  Beyond this, I wanted to be a part of something where my work would make an impact in the long term instead of in a company’s pockets. 

 

I’ve recently finished up a book and now am rereading it, called Rediscovering Willpower.  One of the key points in the book is what is measured if maintained.  In the US, it’s a cliché that Asians are better at math and science then Americans.  The data proves otherwise; on average Asians have a lower IQ score then Eastern Europeans or Americans, so why are the known for being most technically gifted?  It’s in the way Asian parents raise their children, with rigid guidelines for accomplishment.  I’d like you to entertain a method and perhaps later a tool where we could gather data on student accomplishments and behaviors and let teachers use it to cater to their teaching plans.  For example, logging on to Khan Academy, students can track their achievements in terms of how many videos they’ve watched or otherwise.  What about a tool, to track testing progress over a set time, tutoring time, and other efforts to quantify the data in a meaningful way for educators? Just an idea perhaps we could entertain.

[Stebin John]

Wanted to share this with the group:

Top 10 Ed-Tech Startups of 2011

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