Spreadsheets

In order to complete the spreadsheet, I had to become very familiar with Excel. I have never used Excel in this way before, much less at all since I have been in college, so this was something new for me. Sometimes it was frustrating when you needed to type in the formula and the boxes would move to different columns and cells without you telling it to. Then, sometimes it would delete what you had edited and you would have to start over on that certain part. It took many tries and exploring to get used to Excel. I still need to practice with it in order to become an expert, but I am not more familiar with it than I was before. This spreadsheet can be very beneficial to my students and I in the classroom. I can use it to quiz or help my students practice concepts such as times tables, states and capitals, compound words, and contractions. This will allow the children to have direct feedback on their answers, so they will know whether their answer is correct or not. It will also be something different for them to experience on the computer. Next time, I hope to be able to use the template I originally created in order to make it easier to produce multiple spreadsheets for my students.