Another post, another movie title reference. Unfortunately, not another dollar to go along with this post, but I'm not doing it for the fame or money. I, like others, am posting for the ultimate extrinsic motivator...a grade. Don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed blogging. I have wanted to start for a while. Hopefully this class will get me in the habit and I will continue to give my thoughts on Ed Tech.
This week I got to play around with Excel. Now I enjoy spreadsheets and have played around with excel in the past. However, I had a chance to reintroduce myself to Excel using the 2010 version this time around. I enjoyed it. The grade book was fun to format and being into math I also really enjoyed creating the formulas for the weighted grade. I want to do something similar to this at work where we keep track of student competencies for jobs that they do. The forms are already in Excel it's just a matter of formatting and adding formulas and linking workbooks together. The other part of the project was more fun. I never really thought about how to use excel with my students. Alternate assessment time is coming up and with 3 out of 7 students needing high school evaluations done this year it is certainly on my mind. Graphing and reading graphs are part of the math grade level indicators so I went and played around with making surveys and graphs and pie charts. Instead of using Boardmaker, I am going to try and do some work on Excel for my students to do this year. I also enjoyed making math worksheets. It would be better if I found a way to randomize numbers within a range in order to make it more challenging.
Well another week down and another application explored. Until next week.
I liked using excel. It is a very useful tool when doing anything mathematical. I'm glad you found a way to further incorporate the program into your everyday technology usage. Good luck with the high school evaluations!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure why my comment last week did not go through. I also liked using excel, however it was somewhat frustrating for me. Good luck using this with your students! I would love to see your finished work when you are done.
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