Re: [seul-edu] [Fwd: shooting from the hip]

[Nicolas Lopez <nick@corbettschool.org>]

> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:28:41 -0700
> From: steve <stevec@sequoia.k12.az.us>
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> I'm in the process of scouring the web for a linux based prog that will
> do what "reading counts" does in windows.
> Essentially, reading counts is a program designed to test children's
> comprehension of books in the reading counts library.  The cool thing
> about reading counts is that the questions in the test database cover
> books that are already in the usual curriculum for students, so the
> program is just a ready made testing facility for teachers.  It
> shouldn't be rocket science to grab the questions already created and
> build an interface around them for students to use on the linux side of
> things.  So anyway, I know you guys are just getting started and all,
> but if you know of or hear of anything like this, please drop me a line,
> and we get sick of looking and decide to port it over ourselves, I'll be
> sure to pass the beast onto you.  Fair trade?  Good.

  Hmm, you saddled with that SRI stuff too?
  If you're feeling adventurous, wine gets really close to running the
testing program.  I remember only a small issue with it stalling out after a
while.  But I had a hard time reproducing it.  It's been a month or two
since I last tried.
  If you're looking to misappropriate the datafiles I'll help you out.

  - Nick Lopez
    kimo_sabe@atdot.org
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