A software engineer teamed up recently with one speech language pathologist to develop an iPod Touch & iPhone application which will help educators to track students in their progress towards their goals.

Jason Rinn from Del Mar & Eric Sailers made Percentally in order to help educators with tracking data like how successful students are in the art of forming sounds. This tool is most useful in special education for teachers that are using individualized education programs for students.

Rinn & Sailers recently met when they were training for the RocknRoll Marathon. Rinn was recently laid off from work that involved apps which competed with the Iphone.  Sailers was used to working with application technology for the iPhone while he was at La MesaSpring Valley School District.

When Rinn began developing this application, he spoke with Sailers everyday on Skype about the various faetures that they should include in the app and about the bugs that they found.

Once the application started working, I bought a computer of my own and we joined with Apple for distributing the application," Rinn said.

Sailers found colleagues who would beta test the application in conferences & online mailing lists. Test copies were distributed & tech support was through e-mail, skype and websites.

This application was submitted to Apple on December 4th.

It works outside the classroom as well. It is designed for track the progress when in different environments right from the classroom till the golf course.