[MACEP] Database (app) recommendation?

[Brian Kamlin]

I second that nomination (FileMaker), but there is also mySQL (free) it
is also cross platform but harder to use. 
 
Brian Kamlin
IT Support Coordinator
Columbia Regional Program
@ Wilcox Site
833 NE 74th Avenue
Portland, OR 97213


>>> 
Hi Jeanine,
FileMaker, FileMaker FileMaker!!!  You can buy it from OETC for $93.18
a copy.

Darrin A. King

INFORMATION SERVICES PROJECT MANAGER

Gresham-Barlow School District
1331 NW Eastman Pkwy                             
Gresham, OR 97030
Voice- DO: 503.618.2765 (M, W, F)
Voice- TC: 503.465.0821 (T, TH)
Cell: 971.563.0871
Darrin_King at gbsd.gresham.k12.or.us 





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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