Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Week 2 Discussion in Computer Based Instruction

Online Tutorials in Excel Spreadsheets

Websites being discussed;
Classrooms that Excel Resources
The A to Z of Spreadsheets
Almost Everything you Need to Know for Using Spreadsheets in the Classroom

As most of us educators know, keeping organized is essential for our own sanity.Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is a simple yet amazingly useful tool that can be used as grade books, to organize reading lists, and as a tool for everyday classroom management and instruction. Excel is also an important application for students to be well versed in, as it can be useful to almost any career and competency in it can be a great addition to a resume.
Above are three websites that give instruction in using Excel in and out of the classroom.Overall, I found "Almost Everything you Need to Know for Using Spreadsheets in the Classroom" to be the most appealing. The website is simple and offers terrific worksheets and activities to test one's knowledge on spreadsheets. The diagram they use is well laid out and is not intimidating. One thing the site does lack is any step by step instruction in the area of using cells and types of formulas.
This information can be found at the next site, "Classrooms that Excel resources" under "Excel Tutorial". While this site is a bit disorganized and overwhelming, it does contain anything and everything you ever wanted to know about using Excel in the classroom.
If your issue is that you can not remember, or that you are trying to define, Excel terminology, "The A to Z of Spreadsheets" is the site you are looking for. This site has every term available, explained at length.

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1 comment:

  1. It's a good idea to have a few resources available that you can count on for information with an application such as Excel. Sharing the resources with others, as you are doing here, is an excellent idea!

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