[MACEP] Database (app) recommendation?

[JeanineDuBois]

Thank you, Darrin and Brian!

I think I have just enough time to get it from OETC before they close 
for the summer.

I believe it has a cool web interface option, too, that I might want to 
pursue down the road.

Thanks again,
--Jeanine DuBois

On Jun 15, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Darrin King wrote:

> Hi Jeanine,
>  FileMaker, FileMaker FileMaker!!!  You can buy it from OETC for 
> $93.18 a copy.
>
>  Darrin A. King
>
>  INFORMATION SERVICES PROJECT MANAGER
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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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