Meeting 10

Assignments Where to post? Post the Spreadsheet Activities One and Two Under Special Links, Spreadsheet Activities One and Two.

Post your best ideas for student use of lesson plans under Special Links, Best Ideas For Student Use of Spreadsheets.

At the start of class

Dr. M instructed the class to login to Ecourseware. He then asked us to click on the contents tab and then click on spreadsheets. He then told us to begin working on spreadsheet activity one. Oh....the surprises on everyone's face. Interestingly, the activity consisted of us individually doing a spreadsheet in microsoft excel on charting what we eat on a daily basis and seeing are we staying within our ideal calorie range.

As we moved right on, Dr. M asked for all eyes to look at the projector screen. He then showed us the contents of spreadsheet activity 2. He explained the activity and assigned it for outside classwork.

Dr. M showed us some examples of what he uses the spreadsheet for. Then he proceeded by pulling up another spreadsheet and asked us to create one identical to the one on the projector screen. After doing so, he then instructed us to type into our chart five ideas that students can make use of spreadsheets.

After a couple of minutes of getting our ideas together. We broke into groups and were told to choose our best three out of the group to share with the class. You can find these ideas listed under the Best Ideas heading.

Dr. M thought it would be a good time to switch gears, moving on down the agenda list to the next topic RSS.

We took a ten minute break @ 6:23p.m.

After the break, we began discussion of presentation software RSS Feed.

What is a RSS?

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.

You can also visit this link to learn more http://www.whatisrss.com/

Ideas for students use of spreadsheets

Presentation Software

Presentation software is used to create visual supplements for presentation material. DO NOT use your visual as your presentation notes! People do not need to see all of your notes and nobody likes a presenter who just stands there and reads off of the screen. If you commit any of these offenses, Dr. M will hunt you down!

In order to prevent such a tragedy, Dr. M showed us some cool ways to show people only what is neccessary and to keep presentation notes more discreet.

Assignments

Assignment 1 - Complete Spreadsheet Activity One by next week

Assignment 2 - Complete Spreadsheet Activity Two only complete up to bullet point 3. These two assignments must be imported to our home wiki page under the heading spreadsheet and also you can post it under your name which is a file to keep your stuff.

Assignment 3 - Import your spreadsheet chart of list of ideas for students to use spreadsheet into some type of file like zoho where you can then link it to where everyone can see it under the student use of spreadsheets heading.

Assignment 4 - Publish and post your individual best ideas in meeting ten under the best idea heading make sure you state your name and something about each of them about two sentences minimum.

Assignment 5 -Create a spreadsheet of one of your ideas include data so everyone can see what it looks like.

Assignment 6 - Post the spreadsheets that you will have created on the wiki under your ideas.

Assignment 7- Subscribe to two news feeds or other sites you are interested in using your Google Docs RSS Feed tool. Does anyone know what this is called really?

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