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This week, as i had expected i learnt even more than last week, in knowing how to record data in this manner i strongly believe this will be of great assistance to me in the future, as it was to the teachers and office staff at the school i am attending for prac.

In this particular lesson/ workshop i was able to really understand the concept of using formulas, as last week i still a little confused. The only thing i really struggled with was that of the graph, and the word ’series’ used to clasify the information presented in the graph. But thanks to a little help i was able to fix this issue and realise my mistakes.

Overall i found this exercise to be forfilling as i can see how it can be useful in future classroom and school situations as well as learning pracitices.

An example i produced on excel, is based on classroom assessment results, which is just one of the many uses for excel as i explained in last weeks blog.

excel-blog

This weeks workshops was EXCELLENT!! it realy helped me to remember how to use the excel progam. Despite having used the progam in year nine I couldn’t believe how much I’d forgotten in so little time. Many of the new links and formula’s I had never even used or seen before, it was just a big surprise as to what i actually knew about this program to what  i thought i knew about Excel. The other thing that really surprised me was how many uses excel has in terms of teaching for example :In this weeks study guide it explains some examples of when the teacher may use this program. From the study guide the examples include:

•  Grade books and recording marks
•  School class expense budget
•  Creating socio-grams for tracking
•  Creating class seating charts
•  Class lists
•  Designing spelling lists

However personally i believe there can be many more uses, such as

• designing worksheets for students,
•  recording marks in a visual manner, i.e a graph of some kind such as a pie graph etc.

I really can’t wait until the next lesson. where i hope to learn even more than i did last week.

This week, yet again was a new experience for me, i was completely unaware as to how simple this program was to use and i often bipassed it as a tool for publishing. i really enjoyed playing around with all the different layouts and formats that can be used. The other interesting thing i found was how many different types of texts could be produced such as business cards, title pages,  and just the usual word documents. After creating my document and discovering just how simple it was, i now look forward to implimenting my skills into the classrooms and creating some fun and exciting projects for students.

The works hop wad also very helpful, im finding that the more I go the more i realise how ignorant i was to many programs before hand, however i feel that these workshops are very helpful as they explain more of what i need to do, and allow me to understand the progams and why they do certain things differently alot more than i would without them. As an example i would never of figured out why my publisher document would not appear on my blog, if it wasn’t for the explanation and demonstrating given in the workshop.

Overall i really feel like am progressing through these activities and projects.

Here is my : autobiography.jpg p.s you need to enlarge the size of the page to read the writing on the publisher document