[Year 12 IT Apps] Database programs that are BYOD friendly.

Wed Sep 17 16:08:24 EST 2014

When I was in the USA for ISTE2008, teachers that I spoke to were surprised at our particular Victorian obsession with MS Access. Filemaker certainly had the attention of the education sector there.  From memory the site licence for FileMaker included student devices but I have no idea if that policy is still continued or how it worked.

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On 17 Sep 2014, at 3:27 pm, Mark Scott <msc at luther.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> It used to be cheap. (free in fact, I think)
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> In the old days they had a cut down version with limited storage that worked fine.
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf OfSavage, John L
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> Filemaker is a nice cross-platform DB, but it’s not cheap. I bought licenses for one small PC lab and it worked well. It breaks some of the rules and queries are not done in a standard text book style but there are a lot of tutorials available and it’s very user friendly and surprisingly powerful.
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Baas, Benjamin B
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> There all laptops.
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf OfSavage, John L
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> Are the BYOD’s touch screen or keypad? If they are touch screen, good luck. With keypads maybe the Libre/Open Office DB would work, a nice thing about it is that you can point it to a MySQL db on a server if you have one set up. The not so nice thing about it is … where do I start? Documentation? Interface?
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf OfFitzpatrick, Michael
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> Try Libre Office - it has a multi-platform Access clone - not as complicated as the MS one but usable - Windows, Mac, Linux
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> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/#change
> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] on behalf of Baas, Benjamin B [baas.benjamin.b at edumail.vic.gov.au]
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> Hi All,
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> I’m sure this question has been asked before, but are there any teachers out their using database programs that are BYOD friendly or does anybody know of any BYOD friendly options.
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> Cheers,
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> Ben.
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> Benjamin Baas
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