Tim's just ben using The Hat, a great wee tool (for Windows only) which allows you to pick a name out of a virtual hat. Great for shirking any responsibility for choosing Jimmy, again, to hand out the books.
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The Hat is quite cool but it's a bit of a pain to have to load up another set of names for each class - you can use a macro in excel to pick a pupil at random from an existing excel list or register. A template can be found here; Find me a pupil
Posted by: Tim Curtis | May 22, 2007 at 04:31 PM
My HyperCard stack that runs my Color classic clock does that too, must flickr it.
I had a similar palm program too.
10 minute appleScript job for those deprived of windows I'd guess.
Posted by: John | May 22, 2007 at 10:36 PM