Agenda: Excel - Grade Sheet, Attendance Sheet, Pictograph
Good Morning! Today we will talk about Excel.
Using templates and becoming familiar with productivity tools such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel are important in creating a professional teaching environment.
MS Excel is a tool in the MS Office Suite of applications. Excel is a spreadsheet application that is used by accountants, office managers, and small businesses. It allows you to create tabular data, work with numbers and charts in a variety of manners.As educators, there are number of ways we can use excel: as a record keeping tool (attendance), grades, gather and display data (graphs and charts), etc.
Directions for today’s classes will be demonstrated in class.
If you feel lost please look at the following site (on your own time):
http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC012005461033
Other resources that will help you complete this section of the project:Classroom Excel ResourcesMS Excel Modules
On Friday, we will use the following Link to learn how to create a pictograph in Excel for one of your assignments in productivity project. Review the link so that you can work on it during class time on Friday. Be prepared so that we can figure out any challenges we might face.
I recommend that you don't wait until the last minute there will be 9 artifacts due and reflection as descripted in the project description that will need to posted on the web page porfolio (in the Productivity Tools Page). Don't forget you also have a reflection blog posting due on Monday the 17th regarding the LOTI Levels.
See you Friday!
