Thursday, January 25, 2007

Day 8 - 1/26/07

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 handed out in class (select a person to work with).

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 Resources

MS Excel Modules


Today we will use the following Link to learn how to create a pictograph in Excel for one of your assignments in productivity project.

Have a nice weekend. Don't forget to update your calendar to reflect that I might have jury duty on Feb 5th so that day will be a work day for you to complete your Productivity Tools Project - due Feb 7th. Yesterday we discussed how to use a template (certificate sample). You should have enough information to get started. I recommend that you don't wait until the last minute there will be 9 artifacts due and reflection that will need to posted on the web page porfolio (in the Productivity Tools Page).


Have a nice weekend. Don't forget to update your calendar to reflect that I might have jury duty on
Feb 5th so that day will be a work day for you to complete your Productivity Tools Project.

No comments: