[Offtopic] electronic Roll (Attendance) [Scanned]

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Giving each staff member a wireless PDA works out at 25 cents per class with
the added benefit of knowing who the missing students are or where they are,
5 min after the start of each class, not when the PDA's are returned at the
end of a route and not by using the free labours and distracting efforts of
duty students walking about. You could mark rolls with a wireless laptop but
the PDA's are instantly powered on, robust and very easy to use. In
addition, doing away with Form Assembly gave us an extra 20 periods of time
release for coordination staff. Notices are instead read out during period 1
from a Moodle rss feed (or web page). I have been asked to help prepare a
media release and launch during term 2.

 

Regards Roland

 

  _____  

From: offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of VanZetten, Teresa
Sent: Sunday, 3 April 2005 12:06 PM
To: Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Offtopic] electronic Roll (Attendance) [Scanned]

 

Roland,

I love that idea of PDAs!  When I was in Singapore recently, McDonalds was
using them with the girls walking down the queues taking orders.

 

Tom,

When I worked at Katherine High School a few years back they had quite a
good system where you recorded the absentees with a 2b pencil and a scanning
sheet, the receptionist then scanned all sheets through the special scanner.
I believe they upgraded after I left and I am sure they wouldn't mind it if
called them to ask what they had.

 

Regards, Terri.

ICT Teacher

St Mary's College, Brooome.

-----Original Message----- 
From: offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen 
Sent: Fri 4/1/2005 6:50 AM 
To: 'Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List' 
Cc: 
Subject: RE: [Offtopic] electronic Roll (Attendance) [Scanned]

Rob, we have huge plans at a wireless rollout with PDA devices/laptops using
FirstClass A+ at Westall, just around the corner from you! Additional
software only costed us about $600. Drop over one day for a chat or give me
a call this afternoon. Contact details on the website.

 

Regards Roland

 

--

--

Roland Gesthuizen - Westall Secondary College

http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au


  _____  


From: offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Tom Wursthorn
Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2005 7:14 PM
To: offtopic at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Offtopic] electronic Roll (Attendance)

 

Hi There

 

Just wanting to find out of the schools using an electronic solution for
student attendance, what are the various products\software available?

 

I am investigating on behalf of a primary school with about 600 students.

 

Suggestions and thoughts appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance

 

regards

Tom Wursthorn

St Andrews School, Clayton South

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: winmail.dat
Type: application/ms-tnef
Size: 9910 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://www.edulists.com.au/pipermail/offtopic/attachments/20050403/3715e232/winmail-0001.bin