DTSE2007:Advanced Excel

Excel is a technology that helps organize data for the students and grades and averages for the instructor.
This technology is applicable to most sciences, including life and physical.

Ideas for Innovation applications

 * Students can enter data into excel for their labs.
 * Students can also make tables that correspond to their data.

Ideas for Efficiency applications

 * Excel organizes grades for the teacher and it makes it easier to calculate grades.
 * Gets rid of the use for heavy gradebooks.
 * Excel helps the students become more organized with their data.

Ideas for Community applications

 * Students can share their ideas with their classmates.
 * Parents may be able to view their child's grades through excel if linked by the teacher.

Disadvantages, pitfalls, or hazards

 * Excel may be difficult to understand and may confuse the students more than needed.
 * There is a chance the computer could contract a virus and lose all the year's grades.