Tom Hoffman
2006-12-04 07:10:07 UTC
A few bits of news...
We've almost completed our reorganization, to have two full-time (or
almost full time) developers working with specific schools local to
them. It has been a little slow finalizing the agreements with the
schools -- we're making this a closer and more formal commitment than
our previous attempts, and this takes more formalities with more
layers of bureaucracy.
However, we now have a signed agreement with the Vilinius Lyceum, an
International Baccalaureate high school in Vilnius.
http://www.licejus.lt
Ignas Mikalaj?nas from Programmers of Vilnius will be implementing and
deploying SchoolTool for the Lyceum.
The new member of our team, Jean-Francois Roche, is finalizing
arrangements to work with possibly two schools in the Brussels area
with connections to the Python community.
Also, the CanDo project continues to gain momentum in Virginia. The
Virginia Beach school district will be the second to use CanDo for
competency tracking, and they've secured additional backing from the
state and National Science Foundation.
We've been working on integrating the CanDo team into more aspects of
SchoolTool development, which will strengthen both projects going
forward.
Dave Welsh recently posted 12 screencasts on how to setup and use CanDo here:
http://www.careercenter.arlington.k12.va.us/cando/use_cando.htm
--Tom
We've almost completed our reorganization, to have two full-time (or
almost full time) developers working with specific schools local to
them. It has been a little slow finalizing the agreements with the
schools -- we're making this a closer and more formal commitment than
our previous attempts, and this takes more formalities with more
layers of bureaucracy.
However, we now have a signed agreement with the Vilinius Lyceum, an
International Baccalaureate high school in Vilnius.
http://www.licejus.lt
Ignas Mikalaj?nas from Programmers of Vilnius will be implementing and
deploying SchoolTool for the Lyceum.
The new member of our team, Jean-Francois Roche, is finalizing
arrangements to work with possibly two schools in the Brussels area
with connections to the Python community.
Also, the CanDo project continues to gain momentum in Virginia. The
Virginia Beach school district will be the second to use CanDo for
competency tracking, and they've secured additional backing from the
state and National Science Foundation.
We've been working on integrating the CanDo team into more aspects of
SchoolTool development, which will strengthen both projects going
forward.
Dave Welsh recently posted 12 screencasts on how to setup and use CanDo here:
http://www.careercenter.arlington.k12.va.us/cando/use_cando.htm
--Tom