Day 2 - Excel

I felt pretty comfortable using the excel program. I use it to document data and to make charts for my classroom. I also use it to keep track of times, distances, and other information for the track team. What I learned today will help me read and do comparisons more efficiently for both my classroom and the track team. Learning how to freeze the frames will be very beneficial. Also, it will help me to highlight and format my discipline chart I have created within the classroom. Furthermore, I will be able to use these skills to help me look at ISAT material much closer. As I further understand what excel can do for me, I feel it will definitely benefit me when I become a principal, especially when using it to show the teachers some of the trends or areas that will need to be addressed. The more I use excel, the more comfortable I will feel using the program to look at data other than ISAT scores.

One area of the IIRC website I feel is going to be extremely useful is the trends data. I like that I can track a certain group of students to see how they have done on the ISAT test as they went through each grade.

Excel work

I was told by people I respect that excel is one of Microsoft's best efforts in terms of software with useful applications. Until today, I didn't realize just how much excel can do. I thought I knew a lot of excel applications - but that was not the case. I have doubled my excel abilities today - THANK YOU!!!

Valuable Information

I am so keyed up to learn material that I know I will use in my career! Confession: I was dreading the Excel activities. After manipulating a spreadsheet while working together, the idea of actually taking time to learn more wasn’t as frightening! (During break I paid my $6.95 for S/H to the Video Professor!) I’ve had experience with the IIRC web site but didn’t utilize all its “bells and whistles”. I hope that the assignment will help me dive a bit deeper into its full capabilities. Utilizing the IIRC web site to examine potential job openings is a very good idea. I feel that it is important to interview a school district, prior to them interviewing you!

Creason Day 2

I thought the work on Excel was very helpful. I literally have not done anything on a spreadsheet since my freshman year of high school. In 1991 the spreadsheet I worked on was vastly different. Or, it was the same. It was so long ago I don't remember. I do know that I have had a hard time doing any spreadsheet assignments in other classes in this program.
I thought exploring the IIRC website was very helpful. This website is mentioned all of the time in my other classes but this is really the first time I've been in a class that has spent some extensive time analyzing the site.

Tech Day 2

I can see where the EXCEL spreadsheets can be useful in sharing & analyzing data with staff. Thanks for showing the steps to formatting conditions. For those visual people, EXCEL gives you the capability to create a variety of charts from these conditions. I really like using this program. The iirc is an amazing tool, also!

EDL 518 - 1st day

I have to admit, I learned a lot about what I can copy and what I can't. I was surprised about the percent of song usage that is legal. So many violations. I also found it interesting at how many schools are at the same level of Grappling's Spectrum as Logan. Although many of our newer teachers are further on the spectrum due to their experiences with technology in general, most of our teachers are stuck in a comfort zone of just doing enough to get things done...gradebook, attendance, etc. I love the challenge, therefore find myself experimenting with things I know nothing about:)

Day 1 - Technology Plan

I was amazed, when looking at Geneseo's Technology Plan, how much information was in the plan. It was very in-depth and very specific. There was a lot of important data, but it was easy to read. The Geneseo Plan followed the monitoring form exactly. Dr. Closen mentioned how it was important to bold categories and key words. Geneseo did exactly that. In our groups, we were going through the monitoring form and Geneseo's tech plan. We were able to go through and follow along very easily. The plan covered everything in order and it was easy to see how well Geneseo put together their tech plan. When I think about my districts tech plan, there is a lot of work to do for it to give the information related to the monitoring form. It does not have any data. It is more of a user form with some parts related to a technology plan. It will be interesting to see what kind of changes will be made to my districts tech plan over the next year or two.