[MACEP] Database (app) recommendation?

[Darrin King]

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JeanineDuBois <jbdubois at teleport.com> on Friday, June 13, 2008 at 9:33 PM -0800 wrote:
>Hi, folks,
>
>Been a long time since I posted to Macep. I enjoy reading your posts 
>and hold fond memories (days of yore): Friday afternoon meetings, 
>SlumberTechs, June meeting on the dock. (Thanks, Paul!)  For those who 
>don't know, I teach English at Tigard High, and for a number of years I 
>developed a class called TechSMART (SMART=Student Mentors Accelerate 
>Relevant Teaching). Teaching English and maintaining a separate lab 
>became too much (especially when my husband became sick and died). 
>Well, that was cheery, huh?! (; >) Gosh, it's been 8 years since I 
>taught TechSMART.
>
>So, now to the point. I am going to be integrating Brain Gym® into my 
>Freshman English classes next year, and I want to keep some serious 
>data. I intend to create a database with all my students in it and code 
>specially created ID #'s by various learning designations, so that I 
>can pull data about effects of Brain Gym on students with various 
>challenges, skills, needs, etc. I also want to be able to insert 
>anecdotal data and possibly multimedia, at least graphics of before and 
>after samples. Audio (mp3s) and video clips would also be nice. I want 
>to be able to learn the software and set up the database structure this 
>summer. I also want to be able to insert new info on the fly and to 
>quickly and easily generate reports, graphs, stats, etc. For now, I'll 
>have fewer than 150 students in the database, but I would like it to be 
>robust enough to be able to work as effectively for up to at least 
>10,000 students. Although I am most familiar and comfortable with 
>AppleWorks, I know it has gone by the wayside, and I really want to use 
>a DB which would be most user friendly for other BG instructors to keep 
>data anywhere in the world. Oh, and I am running Mac OS X, but I need 
>the DB to be cross platform and something along the lines of an 
>industry standard. So... for all the marbles, what database do you 
>recommend, and do you have any hot tips other than to determine format 
>for entry before creating the DB?
>
>Hope you're off to a great summer ... and that you have time to reply 
>if you have some words of wisdom. (; >)
>
>Thanks, folks!
>
>--Jeanine DuBois
>
>
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