Excel

I started to look for the Add-ins on my Excel 2007 based on the website provided through the class. I worked on Excel, struggling using the help feature and I finally stepped away from my computer for the night due to the frustration. I luckily went to post a discussion when someone shared the link to a site for Excel 2007. I found the Add-in Analysis data without any problems. I would have never thought that the link was only for one version of Office considering it did not say which one it was for or display pictures. I think pictures would be a very helpful tool in the classroom if we were to implement this type of teaching strategy. In my personal life, I found TONS of new Add-ins I could add to Excel and with little tutorials I will be able to use them to help me work more effently. I can learn toold to assists with grades, tests, data, Tech Steps and much more. Sometimes even though the items are on the may menu, when searching for them they become hard to find. When teaching lessons on computer units I will remember that tutorials may be the best way to show and then explain the unit. The standards this touches are Standard 5, to evaulate expand and research based on professional concepts. THe whole nature of this assignment is based on our Action Research project and analyzes faux results. Excel is so complex I think this is always a tool teachers can learn more and more on. The other standard is Standard 1, sovling real world problems. The tools in excel are used everyday in many jobs to solve real world problems and to make them much easier. Students could learn how to find new tools on the internet to make their school projects run much more smoothly.