Re: [seul-edu] ISO software evals

["Roy Hakes" <rhakes@erols.com>]

Hi,

I'm not a teacher much anymore, used to do music.  I'll take a look at
whatever category is going begging...

Roy Hakes

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Loss" <drloss@suscom.net>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:51 PM
Subject: [seul-edu] ISO software evals


> OK folks, time to start getting serious about this.  I have five
> names listed as people who are willing to help evaluate software in
> our Apps Index for inclusion in the ISO: Matt Jezorek (not a
> teacher), Daniel Carter (not a teacher), Michael Williams (not a
> teacher), Jason Neiffer (social studies and speech teacher), Mark
> Schmitt (math teacher), Gordon Tremblay (science teacher), and Jeff
> LeMieux (I'm not sure if Jeff's a teacher or not).
>
> Gordon, we have 31 programs listed under "Science"
> <http://richtech.ca/cgi-bin/seul/seulvw.pl?category=Science>.  Could
> you take a look at them and see which ones seem likely to be useful
> in a school?  If you're not sure, include it.  This is a preliminary
> cut to remove programs that obviously have no pedagogical value
> (which isn't to say that they're not useful; just not useful in a
> classroom setting).
>
> Mark, we have 44 programs listed under "Math"
> <http://richtech.ca/cgi-bin/seul/seulvw.pl?category=Math>.  could
> you do the same?
>
> Jason, there are only 4 programs under "Social Studies"
> <http://richtech.ca/cgi-bin/seul/seulvw.pl?category=SocialStudies>,
> so I'll ask you to take a look at "Language"
> <http://richtech.ca/cgi-bin/seul/seulvw.pl?category=Language> too.
> Unfortunately, there are 63 programs there, covering a very wide
> variety of categories that might fall under the general term
> "Language."  Rather than try to evaluate them all, how about trying
> to group them into subcategories that make sense (let us know what
> those groups are, of course) and evaluate whatever programs fall
> under "Speech."  We'll probably add your subcategories as regular
> categories and drop "Language," as it's obviously too broad.
>
> Michael, since your technology integration friend is willing to
> help, could you look at "Programming"
> <http://richtech.ca/cgi-bin/seul/seulvw.pl?category=Programming> (19
> apps) and "Courseware"
> <http://richtech.ca/cgi-bin/seul/seulvw.pl?category=Courseware>
> (also 19 apps)?
>
> Matt, Daniel, and Jeff, could one of you publicly volunteer (so the
> others know about it) to look at "Administrative"
> <http://richtech.ca/cgi-bin/seul/seulvw.pl?category=Administrative>
> with an eye toward dividing its 57 apps into subcategories as I
> asked Jason to do above?  For all three of you, could you grab onto
> a teacher somewhere and shepherd them through the process of
> evaluating one or another of our categories?
>
> Folks, we need more people to evaluate these apps.  It doesn't hurt
> if multiple people go over the same category--in fact, that's a good
> thing that I hope will happen to all categories.  But we definitely
> need someone to look at every app and evaluate it.  Let's get
> moving!  (I'm going to try to grab a teacher friend to take part
> myself, since I'm not a teacher either.)
>
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