This week, 3 web sites I visited were extremely helpful and one in particular, entitled "GRAPHS", was a perfect complement to the lesson that I wrote this week with regard to having students who were not familiar and/or intimidated with the use of MS Excel could actually receive tutorial assistance with this program when apart from the comfort of a partner in school or the teacher. Suzanne Alejandre's user friendly web site was easy to work with and used "snapshots" of Excel screens one would encounter while utilizing this program and visually depicted the how to's in navigating through Excel.
The second site that was awesome in terms of an interactive site for students was "Create a Graph at Kids' Zone". I tinkered around with this site for about a half hour and really got captivated with ease of use and just plain fun that this site offered. Anyone who uses this site should come away with a great hands-on knowledge of how to create practical and visually attractive products in Excel. Again, this is a boon to students who WANT to learn a spreadsheet program such as Excel at their own speed and convenience.
WOW! The 3rd site I was impressed with was the "Safari" site. Not only did it have a list of all major Excel terms but, more importantly, it offered a feature that instructed on how to use Excel to create vocabulary tests in content specific areas. Being an ELA teacher, I would jump at the opportunity to use this "tool"!!
Steve 3/13/10
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I also love the Graph at Kids' Zone.
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