Spreadsheets

Well, no one should find it surprising that I've never really created my own spreadsheet. Looking through the Atomic Learning tutorials for Google spreadsheets, once again, made it seem quite simple. Setting the spreadsheets up seems easy enough...I like how you can make it colorful and easy to understand with a lot of simple functions. I haven't played around with it enough to know if I could format cells in order to use it for grading, like is done in our class, but I think I could figure it out.

As far as the lesson plans go.... I liked both elementary ones: Consumer Product Testing and Marble Stacking. I definitely could see myself using similar spreadsheets in my classroom. Science lessons and experiments would be easy to incorporate a spreadsheet, as well as any sort of survey. Add to that using spreadsheets in keeping track of grades, and I think it's a no-brainer! Speaking of no-brainer.....I'm fried. :)