1. Ourclass webpage is up. You can go there to take a look
and be familiar with other folks in our class.
2. It is strongly recommended you to complete the followings
before the class on Sep. 19
- Newsletter/ Brochure
- Calendar
- Hall Pass/ Certificate
- Name Card / Students' Name Tag
Today we will focus on Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel to create
the materials for your classroom. Some of your remaining tasks
for the Productivity Tools Project are to create a seating chart,
create an attendance/grade book record, and create a pictograph
in Excel.
PART ONE: Creating seating charts with PowerPoint
MS PowerPoint is a dynamic software tool that allows you to
create presentations. PowerPoint provides you with the
opportunity to list information, display graphics (including
animations), concept maps, and tables. Short movies, hyperlinks,
and music may also be embedded in PowerPoint presentations.
We will spend more class time on learning about PowerPoint later
in the semester. For this part of the Productivity Tools project you
will learn to use the drawing tools in PowerPoint to create a seating
chart. Don't forget that these same drawing tools can be used in
all Office applications (Word, Excel, etc.) Here are some sites which
provide more information about PowerPoint:
PowerPoint in the Classroom
Integrating PowerPoint
Using PowerPoint in the Classroom
PART TWO: Creating a gradebook/attendance record and a
Pictograph and in Excel
MS Excel is the final tool we will take a look at 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.
Classroom Excel Resources
MS Excel Modules
Microsoft Excel Training Course
Today I will walk you through how to create an grade/attendance
record and a pictograph in Excel for your assignments in
the productivity tools project.
FOR THURESDAY:
Continue working on your Productivity Tools project. Make sure
to check the project description to ensure that you are
completing all of the required components. In Thursday's class
you will be shown how to create a worksheet, how to write the
reflection for this project, and convert your objects that you've
created for this project to PDF format.
