Thursday, September 1, 2011
Although I consider myself to be behind when it comes to technology there really is a lot that I use on a regular basis in my classroom. Microsoft Word is used daily to creat class lists, assessments, notes to parents and my weekly newsletter. I also often use excell to make tables to record data and scores. I have been using teacherweb.com to maintain a class website over the past year. I have really enjoyed to response from parents since I began using a class website to post and deliver information and parents have liked that they can access many of the important forms and information that I send home. I would really like to understand Microsoft Excell. I would like to be able to use this program to record data about students growth in areas such as Letter ID, reading levels, sight word knowledge, and fact knowledge. I am finding it difficult to progress further with Excel because I find the formulas to be very confusing. I am hoping that I can use some of my collegues as a help in this area. I know that some of them do use Excel for this purpose and seem to understand it better. I would also like to become more experienced with the current technology that came with our EnVisions math series. I know that there are a lot of elements to the program that will allow my students to get on computers and use some interactive componants to go along with and reinforce what I am teaching with more traditional methods. I am going to have to take time to explore the software and the website that was given to us.
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When it comes to working with EXCEL, you do not have to know the formulas. If you select the insert function button, you'll get a list of all of the formulas that are in EXCEL. I've found the pull down menu that goes along with the auto sum button has all you would need. If you read through a tutorial, I think you could learn EXCEL fairly quickly.
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