Club Connection--April, 2010

Scott Sloan, OHCC's well-known computer guru, will demonstrate his latest work--A system for improving our Grandkid's Education...

Scott has already provided the OHCC Golf Club with a Golf Club Scoring System and recently has been working with his son in the development of a unique and comprehensive Classroom Management and Learning System. If you were in the education field then this meeting will bypass what is happening within schools today and show you where it will be 20 years from now.

Scott plans to have hands-on computers at the demo, so you can be a “student” and see what your grandchildren might be doing soon. Scott and his international team of 7 programmers and several OHCC residents have developed this system starting in 2006.

If you want to get a feel for what the team has been doing, you can google “School for one.” With Scott’s small team, their system is beyond what “School For One” did with over a million dollars and dozens of people.

Each student is on an individual automatic advancement course to the next level. There are many other features, like being able to stream up to 5 videos to one or more selected students automatically so even when a sub is in the room, teaching is at a high level.

If you would like to contribute some time and knowledge to this project and can enter data into Excel, Scott would like for you to be on this volunteer team. He needs people who want to take these interactive tutorials and build science and history lesson plans. Please come to the meeting to see how YOU can help.

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Vol. 14, Issue 9	*THE CLUB CONNECTION* A Monthly Publication of the Ocean Hills Computer Club September, 2010 Club Website : www.oceanhillscomputerclub.net	Patti Kopcho, Editor

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