What are the advantages and features of electronic spreadsheets? How do you see them as a benefit in an educational environment? I never put it together that Microsoft Excel is to data/numbers as Microsoft Word is to text/story telling. Spreadsheets allow you to crunch numbers and keep track of multiple sources of these numbers both accurately and with the speed of point and click. This level of organization can almost eliminate the accountant with the green eyeshade visor with the stubby pencil. Keeping track of budgets, grades, and statistical information is now a snap with today's spreadsheet software. I feel the premium benefit of these programs is the accuracy with which numbers can be manipulated. Just input the data and let the program find the balance, average, median, or standard deviation. For the educator with no "off the shelf" grade tracking software, a spreadsheet will rescue you from hours of painful calculator manual work. Just define the parameters for your class grades, enter the names of your students and you are off to the races with grade data and statistical data to make any accounting firm green with envy. Teachers have a variety of ways the grade data can be displayed as a class, individual students, charts, and graphs. The educator can also use spreadsheets to keep track of data for extracurricular clubs and organizations. Also, teaching your students how to use spreadsheets will benefit them in personal finance skills; they can keep the club budget of estimate the financial needs of the school band. Spreadsheets are powerful tools which once you become familiar will free the educator from mundane mathematical tasks.
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Hey Rick, it's Chris!
Green eyeshade visor and stubby panecil? Is this a hint at your alter ego? Hit me up sometime and let me know how things are going up in Oak Grove.
Peace,
CB
I use alot of spreadsheets in my business. It is more economical than buying a system. I believe it is a great tool if your school does not have a computer program that is available for use by all teacehers. It can make the work load easier. At first, it can be a little time comsuming by having to set it up and put in formulas, but in the end it will save a lot of time. It can also help students keep track of there own grades and let them see how well they are doing in a subject. It sometimes can motivate a student to do better.
Good job, but you know my BSBA is in Accounting.
I use spreadsheets in excel at on my job. The grants I write for my programs calls for alot of data collections. I collect grades, and surveys just to name a few,a nd having them in a spreadsheets keeps the information organized, formulated, and sorted. The only things that slows me down is trying to remember all the formulas to calulate the information I have inputed.
This information is vital to my programs because it directly impact the funding of those programs if that information in writing in the grant.
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