Blog Post Eleven!
1. I think that excel is a really great tool to be used in the classroom. Although as with anything there are both pros and cons to having it. I do think that it takes a lot of time to input the data information and figure out exactly how to get it to look the desired way. I think there are many ways it could be used in a classroom, this is applicable to any grade / subject. It could be used to input grades - most teachers use pen and a gradebook but teachers are humans so they make mistakes and putting white out on all the grades is more work than just changing a number online. You could also use excel as a teacher to keep track of each students fundraising for an event. In my middle school we did something called Boosterthon and we tried to fundraise to get cool prizes. Using a spreadsheet would be a really easy way to keep this organized for each student. 2. The flipped classroom is a way to take all the outside school work and put it inside the classroom, and all the ma...
