Re: [school-discuss] Re: Gradebook project

[Les Richardson <richl@mail.tfsd.sk.ca>]

Hi Kevin,

It seems that this PDF is encoded with what Adobe calls "type 3 fonts" that
render very poorly in Acrobat reader. Do you have the original source for
this document? (ie. LaTeX or whatever) so that I/we might read more easily?

Les Richardson
H. Hardcastle School
Edam, Sk. Canada



At 06:26 PM 4/7/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello.
>
>> i think the answer is yes [as grocho might say], as evidenced by
>the posting
>> todate.  scope drifts without provacation. one good reason for
>setting a
>> delivery date is to bound the scope by the simple act of a cutoff
>date.
>
>I presume then, that development will commence with just a gradebook
>
>app?
>
>> i hope whatever we do between now and june can be plugged into
>other efforts
>> in future.  Starting with Storm would set that precedent.
>>
>> if a student information system is created, it will likely be by
>accident.
>> this has worked well for projects like apache.org.  loosely
>coupled projects
>> that seize opportunities to integrate and try to avoid doing
>anything that
>> might discourage the opportunity.
>>
>> this means some level of rewrite is inevitable, but managable.
>
>Well, from my point of view (I'm a lowly technology coordinator), I
>think that the student information systems will be the inevitable
>extension of the gradebook program.  So if I were the one coding
>this
>(thankfully, I'll leave that up to you!), I'd try to keep things
>fairly
>modular.  To this end, I would have the student/class management
>system
>be a separate interface from the gradebook (i.e., 'enter the
>scores')
>system.
>
>> i think you should plan on both.  isn't one a subset of the other
>to a
>> limited degree?
>
>At the schools I've worked with, the elementary grades are more
>subjective.  Things like 'plays well with others' and the 'grades'
>are
>similar to 'S - Satisfactory', 'U - Unsatisfactory', etc.  High
>school
>grades are the regular A-F letter grades.
>
>> your attachment didn't get through.
>
>I'll try to resend it.  Did it not go through at all or you couldn't
>
>read it?
>
>> we need some teachers on the list to bat these issues around.
>> i'm not a teacher, so this isn't really a first person account.
>
>I'm not a teacher, either.  I just play with them on a daily basis.
>:)
>
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