Snapshots of Spreadsheet Web Sites

Integration Ideas with Spreadsheets

Creating Charts
The website I chose under the category of “Integration Ideas With Spreadsheets” was Creating Charts. The site provides a “how to” section for web units graphs and charts. I would incorporate in the classroom the section on “How To Make A Bar Graph”. The students will graph their weekly encoding and decoding scores for a month and track the scores from week to week by learning to change the fonts and colors. In this way the students will be able to visually track their numeric scores and differentiate by colors.

http://mathforum.org/alejandre/spreadsheet.html

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/


Spreadsheet Software Options

Excel 2007
With the category of “Spreadsheet Software Options” I chose Microsoft Office Online under Proprietary spreadsheet solutions. The reason I picked this software option is the availability of clip art images and templates that the students can readily make use of in their reading and writing. Their writing could be easily supplemented with images by browsing the clip art and media categories that are available in the Clip Art section. The students could also make use of the list template by listing their Spelling and Vocabulary words each week and track the books they read with the reading log template.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/default.aspx


Spreadsheet Tutorials

School Spreadsheet Safari
Under spreadsheet tutorials I picked School Spreadsheet Safari because from the student’s perspective it is very user friendly in that the site takes you through a natural progression of “What is a Spreadsheet?”; “Spreadsheet Vocabulary”; “Spreadsheet Tips and How-tos”; and “A Timeline of Spreadsheet History”. Under classroom activities there is a section titled “Reading & Language Arts Spreadsheets” which would enable me as the Reading teacher to become more organized and efficient through the use of spreadsheets for vocabulary words, spelling tests and even a reading book check-out spreadsheet. This reading book check-out spreadsheet would enable me to see what books I have and who has them out. The Spelling test spreadsheet would provide not only a way for the students to practice their spelling words but to also take the test and have it scored automatically by the computer. Talk about a teacher time saver.

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110054/

O, Blanche, and Kathleen Puckett. Preparing to Use Technology. Second Edition.

Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2009. 210-24. Print.