jan's diary

For the last year or so I have developed educational web services. The only one that has been brought to the market is iwyq at http://iwantyourquestion.com. It is heavily inspired by the suberb support system at my previous web host and has been beta tested as a support site for my school administration system at John Gray High School.

I started with a service for teachers creating online tests, multiple-choice and others, called eq, or easy question. Then followed sol, or simple online learning, borrowing heavily from HP’s free online courses. Recently I started work on “resources”, a way for a school, or any other oganisation, to share its documents and web links, inside and outside the organisation. It will lead into “lessons”, a collection of lessons similar to the successful lessons created by Telford school. Lately I have worked on Jquiz, a way for schools and others to have a new multiple choice question appear on their intranet, blog or web page automatically every day within a certain topic.

In addition to this I have developed “remember”, to check that people far away remember what they ought not forget, started “new remember”, an enhancement of “remember”. I wrote Jmail, so I can send individual emails to editors selling my writings instead of put them in one group. I have also written a Chess Viewer so I can play through games I or others have played on my website.

So the conclusion is, lots of projects, few finished. Read this to understand the title of this post.

Stumbling the net I fell over this: ‘I also do a bit of freelancing – helping varies companies use the internet more effectively.’

I wrote the owner of the page and he greatfully corrected it.

This incident spurred in me the idea for yet another web service that would work like this.

1. A program trawls the Internet and spell and grammar checks web pages.
2. The results are stored in a database.
3. The owners of the cases with most errors get an email offering them to reveal their mistakes for $x dollars per mistake.
4. 0.001% of the emails get a positive response.
5. I get an extra income.

By the way, the mistake in the title passed MS Words’ spell and grammar check.