Portfolio
🌐 Aram Zaldívar | Portfolio & Digital Garden
Welcome! I am an educator, curriculum designer, and EdTech developer. I build digital tools and interactive learning experiences that bridge the gap between structured thinking, technology, and active pedagogy.
Here you can explore my curricular projects and open-source software tools.
🎒 Featured Curriculum Design
🚀 00_Syllabus_Official
A "thinking laboratory" designed specifically for high-ability students. Rather than memorizing historical dates, students engage in Socratic debate and thought experiments to navigate the complexities of identity, knowledge, justice, power, and AI ethics.
- Metacognitive Focus: Integrates Bullet Journaling as a daily system for reflection, rapid logging, and cognitive growth.
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💻 EdTech Products & Tools
These web applications are designed to empower students, teachers, and presenters with clean, ad-free interfaces.
🧠 Projects/MindNote/MindNote
A visual note-taking revolution for the modern classroom.
- The Idea: Traditional note-taking is linear, but gifted brains think in webs and hierarchies. MindNote combines the visual structure of a mind map with the depth of a nested, markdown-based text editor.
- Core Tech: Drag-and-drop note re-organization, unified markdown compilation for essay drafting, and zero-dependency HTML exporting for offline sharing.
⏳ Projects/Chronograph/Chronographtimeline Project
Redefining chronological learning through interactive, multi-dimensional timelines.
- The Idea: History is more than a line of dates; it is a web of cause-and-effect. ChronoGraph lets users map complex historical shifts by grouping events into period-based lenses.
- Core Tech: Map View toggle for spatial history, multimedia entry support, cause-and-effect connection lines, and high-quality PDF/HTML exporting.
🎤 Projects/Teleprompter/Teleprompter
A minimalist, lightweight, and completely ad-free teleprompter utility.
- The Idea: Built out of a real-life need for a presenter, bypassing bloated online alternatives requiring paid subscriptions or filled with distracting ads.
- Core Tech: Black-screen high-contrast interface, auto-scrolling text with keyboard/speed controls, floating drag-and-drop panels, and local browser storage.
📊 Projects/Behavior Tracker/Behavior Tracker
Classroom performance and behavior analytics.
- The Idea: Collect and study behavior data in real-time. The app tracks both expected and challenging student behaviors, studies trends, and implements Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) strategies to improve outcomes.
- Core Tech: Interactive Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence (ABC) logging, trend reports, time-of-day analytics, and secure PDF/CSV data exports.
🤖 Projects/ABA Assistant GPT
Your personalized assistant for producing ABA documents.
- The Idea: Developed to streamline the clinical writing workload for behavior analysts. It analyzes raw session data or tables and generates structured progress reports and clinical document outlines.
- Core Tech: Custom-engineered generative AI assistant equipped with prompt libraries for ABC calculations, IEP notes, and behavior support plans.
🎮 Projects/Math SOL Game Gem
Interactive gamified math tutor for 5th graders.
- The Idea: Designed for students in Fairfax, Virginia, to review math standards through an engaging quest. The Gem guides students through narratives, puzzles, and math challenges aligned with the VA SOLs.
- Core Tech: Custom-instructed Gemini Gem with adaptive questioning, Socratic hinting, and storyline progression features.
🧩 Projects/Escape Room Generator Gem
Automated gamified activity builder for classrooms.
- The Idea: Helps teachers generate educational escape room challenges mapped to specific grade levels, topics, and standards (defaulting to Virginia SOLs).
- Core Tech: Custom-instructed Gemini Gem that scales puzzle complexity, outputs a 5-digit lock puzzle code (using ciphers, matching, and visual analysis), and generates answer sheets.
🕰️ Projects/El Eco de Medianoche
The pioneer: narrative-driven grammar game that launched systematic game-based learning.
- The Idea: An interactive historical investigation set in Madrid where 7th-grade Spanish students break a time loop by mastering the Presente Continuo. This was the first experimental implementation that proved custom-built educational games could replace generic worksheets — leading to a systematic methodology adapted for every subsequent working group.
- Core Tech: Mystery narrative with multiple investigation paths (Catedral de la Almudena, Monasterio de El Escorial), "Word Symphony" click-to-order grammar mechanic, research notebook system, hover translation, and a downloadable certificate of achievement.