Spreadsheets

Today we learned how to make a grade book on word excel and I'm not gonna lie it was a little frustrating. I haven't had to use excel sense high school in my last computer class and that was three years ago. So I had totally forgot how to even use the basics of excel and it took me awhile and a little help from those around me to actually get to the point as to where i was starting to understand and feel comfortable with using the program again. I think that it is a good way to create your grade book for school, it is just something that i am going to have to fiddle with and get more comfortable with so that I can use it in the future. The functions are good to know because it makes your life so much easier when it comes to calculating grades for the entire class. It will be extremely helpful, the only problem is that I'm not sure how to set up the different formulas and functions in the program for figuring out different things. So that is something that I need to figure out how to do.

I also think that the cell phone poll is pretty sweet. This would be something awesome to do in the upper grades and something that I think the kids would LOVE to do!! I couldn't really do this in an Elementary Classroom because none of my little students are going to have cell phones. But I think for future references and for other projects at school or work or something then I think that it would be a sweet thing to do. Its fast its simple and I think that it is something that would be very motivaional to those who would be able to use it.