Excel could be used in real classroom instructions: construct a pictograph with Excel, which is a graph that uses pictures to represent the values being graphed; create time-lines with Excel to help students visualize and understand trends; use Microsoft Excel to analyze survey data. Very useful instructional tool!

1. Excelling with Microsoft Excel Sirui Wang, Ph.D. student TaralynnHartsell, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Instructional Technology and Design The University of Southern Mississippi February, 2011

2. What is Microsoft Excel? Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheetprogram that allows one to enter numerical values or data into rows or columns of a spreadsheet, and to use these numerical entries for tasks such as calculations, graphs, and statistical analysis.

3. Spreadsheet A spreadsheet is a computer application that simulates a paper, accounting worksheet.

4. What does a Spreadsheet look like? It displays multiple cells that together make up a grid consisting of rows and columns, with each cell containing alphanumeric text, numeric values, or formulas.

5. How does Spreadsheet work? A formula defines how the content of a cell is to be calculated from the contents of any other cell (or combination of cells) each time any cell is updated. Spreadsheets are frequently used for financial information because of their ability to re-calculate the entire sheet automatically after a change.

6. What could a Spreadsheet be used for? Here are some resources: Educational usages of spreadsheets Title: Spreadsheets, Mathematics, Science, and Statistics Education URL: http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/Spreadsite/ A case study of lesson plans for middle school Title: Using Graphs to Investigate Candy Color Distribution URL: http://www.microsoft.com/education/candy.mspx#EDC Education World @ Professional Development Channel Title: Spreadsheets: A Dynamic Path to Understanding Math URL: http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/mathchat/mathchat025.shtml Integrating spreadsheets in the classroom Title: Spreadsheet in Classroom URL: http://www.amphi.com/~psteffen/excel.html

7. How to use excel in classroom instruction? According to Microsoft's Education Website, Excel offers teachers numerous ways for creating engaging lessons and to enhance instruction. Teachers can: construct a pictograph with Excel, which is a graph that uses pictures to represent the values being graphed. create time-lines with Excel to help students visualize and understand trends. use Microsoft Excel to analyze survey data. (above examples are cited from http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_6778578_use-excel-classroom-instruction.html) With so many demands on a teacher's time, Excel is an efficient tool for creating activities to make classroom instruction more engaging and to encourage student participation.

8. ~Read More~ The following are Excel resources available on the Web for education: Word files: a) Using Excel for Classroom Activities (An Internet Hotlist on Excel) b) Spreadsheets in the Classroom Using Excel c) WaystoUseExcel.doc d) Spinning the Big Wheel_ Spreadsheet simulation.pdf e) Boundary-Value Problems in Electromagnetics.pdf f) Washington State's Tiers of Technology Integration (PowerPoint) Web links: a) Lee's Summit, MO School District Excel resources lists (Web link) b) Amphitheater Public Schools' Integrating Spreadsheets in the Classroom (Web link) c) Sabine Parish School District's Classrooms thatExcelResources (Web link) d) internet4classrooms.com's Microsoft Excel Modules (Web link) e) Washington State's Tiers of Technology Integration (PowerPoint)

9. Excel for instructional activities For Gradebooks GradeBooks: http://www.mygradebook.com/ Title: Create an Electronic Gradebook URL: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/create-an-electronic-gradebook-HA010069070.aspx New resource: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Gradebook

10. For Timeline Title: Using Excel to Create a Timeline URL: http://lifehacker.com/201523/use-excel-to-make-a-timeline

11. For Crossword How to create crosswords games by Microsoft Excel? URL: http://learngen.org/resources/leobjects/lg0006ta.html For creating a simple excel crossword puzzle: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/excel_puzzle.htm

12. Excelling Your Instruction with Excel!Thank you!