On 10/23/05, Tom Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/23/05, Thomas Mills Hinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The reason I gave the e-mail w/ a few names as an example was to > > emphasize that a good input system may not look like a typical > > attendance book. If you admit that for many cases what will happen is > > data will be copied from a pencil-and-paper list to a computer, the > > design objective changes: rather than mimicking the paper checklist > > the teacher would use in a webform, you should figure out a way to > > make the necessary data entry as efficient as possible (which may or > > may not look like the checklist that is easiest to use in the class > > itself). > > An Ajax live search like the search on http://schooltool.org would be > helpful for this an any number of other things.
Exactly the sort of thing I had in mind. btw, I hadn't noticed it before, but that live search is pretty snazzy. Oh the web it is a changing... Tom _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
