About+Us

Maria Dolores Rodrigues Jardim is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Technology at Walden University's Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership. 20 years experience as a Physics and Chemistry teacher, teacher's trainer in the introduction of educational technology and in differenting instruction in the classroom. Currently collaborating with a project in São Tomé and Príncipe, promoting online instruction to complement face to face instruction at the secondary school level as well as in higher education.
 * Maria Jardim: maria.jardim @waldenu.edu**

Alexandra Salas is a Ph.d. candidate at Walden University's Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership. Her professional experience includes instructional design, distance learning platforms, market consulting, public relations, and teaching undergraduate and graduate level interdisciplinary courses,. She has 20 years publishing experience in trade print and digital publications for the education, food and agribusiness industries.
 * Alexandra Salas: asalas@waldenu.edu**

Dr. Douglas Tedford (Walden University, University of Southern California, Brigham Young University) is an educational technology instructor for Walden University, and has worked in language acquisition theory, teaching, administration and curriculum development since 1988, in California, Texas, Mexico and Central America. He is the author of several English courses published in Latin America, and is a member of the executive education team of the Fundacion Rigoberta Menchu Tum, in Guatemala, where he promotes online education of rural English teachers.
 * Dr. Douglas Tedford**

John Schaffhausen’s brother married a woman from Cambodia in the late 1990’s. John was asked to visit Cambodia in 2001 to check on his sister-in-laws family. Arrangements were made for John to meet with an interpreter, Rasy Sim, to help John around this wonderful country. Rasy, a native of Cambodia, is fluent in several languages and often visited France, where his wife lived. Rasy told John about his desire to start a French Learning elementary school in Siem Reap, Cambodia. During John’s first visit to Cambodia, the only piece of the school available at the time was the land where the school was going to be built, which Rasy and his wife purchased recently. John asked Rasy if he needed computers for the school, to which the answer was yes, but not until after the school is built. The school, Ecole Francaise de Siem Reap, Cambodge was open for business in 2003 ([]). John returned to Cambodia in 2003, 2004 and 2005 bringing six computers (over the years) for the school to use. After seeing the faces of the children as they were being told that these computers are for the students and not the teachers, John knew that this is the reason for making this happen.
 * John Schaffhausen**

John’s employer in 2005 learned of his activities of donating computers to schools and offered to donate a large number of computers upon achieving a 501(c)(3) status. John applied for the non-profit status for DOESITT? Inc. in 2005 and was awarded the 501(c)(3) status later that year. DOESITT? Is an acronym for Distributing Opportunities and Equipment to Students Internationally Takes Time, does it? John believes it only takes resources, not time. Since the company was founded in 2005, DOESITT? shipped, delivered, and setup computers in the Philippines, Peru, and Guatemala. Although DOESITT? was dissolved in 2010, John continues to find schools that need computers and attempts to get these schools what they need in a timely manner.