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Sensational Spreadsheets

Sensational Spreadsheets. Two words you never thought you’d see together. Douglas Drover & Donna DesRoches. Morning Agenda. Introductions Walking through the Excel environment What’s a database Excel for Organization Excel for Calculation Excel for Visualization

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Sensational Spreadsheets

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  1. Sensational Spreadsheets Two words you never thought you’d see together Douglas Drover & Donna DesRoches

  2. Morning Agenda • Introductions • Walking through the Excel environment • What’s a database • Excel for Organization • Excel for Calculation • Excel for Visualization • Excel for Personal Goal Trackination • Your Turn

  3. Environment • Rule 1: Don’t be scared. • Rule 2: Know how to undo. • Let’s Go!

  4. Database? • All the data you want to use • Logically organized • Consistent • Error-free

  5. Organization • Tracking • Milk money • Permission forms • Parent contact • Outcomes in course or for students • Tools • Counts • Conditional Formats • Sort • Find / Filter

  6. Calculation • Formulas • Can perform basic arithmetic operation formulas • Roughly 400 pre-programmed functions available • Strictly follows BEDMAS • Can toggle to show formulas • Why? • Removes “busy work” when practice is not the goal • Allows more time for analysis • Still demands student understanding of BEDMAS • Allows students to visually sort and/or “chunk” multi-step problems

  7. Visualization • Why? • Removes “busy work” when practice is not the goal • Allows more time for analysis • Still demands student application of expectations • Supports MI by allowing visual learners quicker access to visual representations • Graphing • 11 different graph types with hundreds of different formats • Linked to cells; instantly update Shading Conditional Formatting Manual shading

  8. Goal Trackination • What? • Allowing students to track their own data to indicate progress towards a goal • Why? • Emphasizes personal reflection • Promotes student ownership of their learning • Students see their data in real time • Students easily share data with the teacher • And… do you really want one more thing to do?

  9. Your Turn • Now it’s your turn! • Build your own chart and table on a topic of your choosing using data from the participants in this room. • It doesn’t matter: • How have our feelings towards Excel changed this morning? • In which areas of instruction do we want more support? • Where do we want to eat lunch today? • Who has the best dance moves? • Just remember to start with a database and end with a chart!

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