Honestly… they exist
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
• Excel for Personal Goal Trackination
• Your Turn
Environment
Rule 1: Don’t be scared.
Rule 2: Know how to undo.
Let’s Go!
Database?
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All the data you want to use
•
Logically organized
•
Consistent
•
Error-free
Eye Colour
Hair Colour
Sock Colour
Amy
Blue
Blonde
Black
Bob
Green
Brown
Yellow
Cindy
Brown
Trying to be
Blonde
Black
Dave
Brown
Brown
White
Blue
Mismatched,
because that’s
cool somehow
Emma
Blue
Organization
Tracking
Tools
•
Milk money
•
Counts
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Permission forms
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Parent contact
•
Conditional Formats
•
Outcomes in course or for students
•
Sort
•
Find / Filter
Calculation
Formulas
Why?
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Can perform basic arithmetic
operation formulas
•
Removes “busy work” when practice
is not the goal
•
Roughly 400 pre-programmed
functions available
•
Allows more time for analysis and
critical thinking
•
Strictly follows BEDMAS
•
Still demands student understanding
of BEDMAS
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Can toggle to show formulas
•
Allows students to visually sort and/or
“chunk” multi-step problems
Visualization
Graphing
Why?
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11 different graph types with hundreds
of different formats
•
•
Linked to cells; instantly update
Removes “busy work” when
graph-making and colouring is not
the goal
•
Allows more time for analysis on
graphical information
•
Still demands student application
of expectations
•
Supports MI by allowing visual
learners quicker access to visual
representations
Shading
•
Conditional Formatting
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Manual shading
Goal Trackination
What?
•
Allowing students to track their own data to
indicate progress towards a goal
Why?
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Emphasizes personal reflection
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Promotes student ownership of their learning
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Students see their data in real time
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Students easily share data with the teacher
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And… do you really want one more thing to do?
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!