Topic 8- Spreadsheets

Today we learned about spreadsheets and how we can use them in the classroom. I had used spreadsheets a bit in other classrooms and it was good to refresh those skills. We learned how to use different calculation features to total numbers in a gradebook and to find averages among students. This will be so helpful in managing the grades of my future classroom. It was good to learn how we can actually use this program in the future. I liked how we were able to connect the uses of spreadsheets specifically to our needs and majors as educators.

We also learned how to create online quizzes through google documents. This is a fun and quick way to create and send out tests. Many students like to use computers and that number is increasing so I like learning new ways to incorporate the internet into lessons and tests. We were able to choose between a lot of different question types on google documents which was so great. We can create a test with a lot of variety and choices for students. Google documents also automatically combines all the submitions so I can just look at it and see the answers to my survey. This can save a lot of time managing tests and makes it easy to see how people are doing. I think learning about spreadsheets and surveys will be very helpful in my future classroom.

My survey can be located at:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p4njzG98iDe1CO_Qnq7LBcg