Excel Spreadsheet
I kind of had fun with this assignment. I've always liked playing around with Excel, especially after I figured out how to use formulas and functions.
I tend to begin these technology assignments and then I get carried away, finishing the assignment completely before I realize that I was to do it step-by-step. That's what I did with this "Fun With Data" project. I completed the entire thing before uploading it in each part (Formatting, Manipulating, and Narrative).
With the formatting, I just used common sense I guess you could say. I know how to use paintbrush with Excel and Word but it's not for me. For some reason, I just have a really hard time with it. So to be honest, I did not use the paintbrush tool, but the format for all three years look the same.
With the manipulating data and summary, it was pretty simple for me. I knew how to do those formulas. However, I did not know I could create functions between sheets. That was really neat to be able to figure out how to do that. Actually, it's common sense if you understand how to do the other functions. Nothing to it really.
Like I said earlier, I like Excel. I use it for all kinds of things--budgeting, days that I sub, all my wedding planning. And I use formulas and functions for all of that. It makes like much simpler.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Assessment Forms
Take the Colonial America Quiz!
I thought this assignment was so cool! What a convenient way to make quizzes! This would be a great tool for teachers to use occasionally for assessment. It's great that students can take the quiz online from home or wherever there's internet. Obvioulsy, the need for computers to take the quiz would create difficulties for classroom teachers to use this feature all the time. And although Google Docs was very convenient, it lacked some other quiz/test formats that are often used, such as matching, fill in the blanks with a word bank (which I guess could be used by adding the words in the hint box), and other higher-order thinking questions that require students to draw a diagram, graph, etc. But this just goes to show that some things are better done the "old-fashioned" way.
Overall, this assignment was very beneficial to me. I plan to use it. I also think it would be good for students to use every now and then even if it's just for the sake of practice. If not already, students will be required to use computer more and more for assessments like this one, so using Google Docs to create quizzes would be a good idea for teachers.
I thought this assignment was so cool! What a convenient way to make quizzes! This would be a great tool for teachers to use occasionally for assessment. It's great that students can take the quiz online from home or wherever there's internet. Obvioulsy, the need for computers to take the quiz would create difficulties for classroom teachers to use this feature all the time. And although Google Docs was very convenient, it lacked some other quiz/test formats that are often used, such as matching, fill in the blanks with a word bank (which I guess could be used by adding the words in the hint box), and other higher-order thinking questions that require students to draw a diagram, graph, etc. But this just goes to show that some things are better done the "old-fashioned" way.
Overall, this assignment was very beneficial to me. I plan to use it. I also think it would be good for students to use every now and then even if it's just for the sake of practice. If not already, students will be required to use computer more and more for assessments like this one, so using Google Docs to create quizzes would be a good idea for teachers.
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