Pop Quiz

2) In our blog post for today we had to briefly summarize some of what we learned about
a. Google documents in this exercise
*learned how to create/save a PDF file
*how to upoad a PDF file to google doc
*how to share PDF file in google doc

b. What did you learn about APA formatting?
*How to create cover page
*How to insert page numbers
*How to insert data/charts
*Indenting and formating in APA style
*Learned about the OWL Perdue website/citing sources
*Creating a Referecnce page

Click here to see a jing video of  how to install the analysis tool pack in Excel.
Click here to see a jing video of how to do a TTest in Excel.

My results concluded after using the Ttest that students improved with a siginifant difference of 3.14669E-75 (0.00).

APA Formating

We have been working on an Action Research Project for the last couple of class meetings and we have been using an APA formatting style which includes descriptive and inferential statistics. We have included charts and tables in our projects, and we have learned how to properly cite our sources using the APA formatting style. Overall I think that APA formating is rather easy  to use and could easily be adapted into future research projects.

Action Research Report

For our action research project, we learned  how to use proper APA formating  using the Purdue OWL website.  We also learned how to correctly do a cover page as well as making a header and inserting page numbers at the top of each page.  We also used Excel to organize the data for our paper.  We learned several different functions and formatting processes to help us organize our data for our action research paper.

Spreadsheet Activity 3

Today in class we worked on another spreadsheet. For this activity we did some data analysis by expanding the use of a spreadsheet. Prior to this activity we worked on how to use some of the built in functions (average, min, and max) and calculate formulas (range, weighted averages).

 ISTE.NETS 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership.D--contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community. This excel spreadsheet provides information individuals testing scores verses the diversity in the classroom. 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning.d-model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.We used formulas and functions to calculate the average and added in graphs.

Spreadsheet Activity 2

Today, in class we continued using spreadsheet in excel and expanded on our previous lesson. For this activity we calculated grades using weighted grades.We were able to use a formula given to us by Dr. Pierce to aid us in our calculations.Click here to see our class spreadsheet.

I feel that learning this information has been beneficial because using an electronic grade book makes things easier and far less time-consuming. It also aligns with ISTE NETS standard (5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership d. contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community.) because teachers must monitor their students progress through grading to provide parents and others in the community about academic progress.

Spreadsheet

Today in class we created a spreadsheet and calculated student averages. Click here to see the spreadsheets we created in class. We had three sheets and we averaged the grades on each sheet. Then on sheet four we combined the grades to get an overall average for each student. We also played around with some formulas in spreadsheet to help us calculate the averages. It allowed us to drag and receive a total of  the averages in one easy step.

ISTE.NETS  3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning.d-model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning. We averaged and gathered averages for three terms. 5.Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership.D-contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community. It's important as a teacher to monitor the progress of your students through grading to provide parents and other professionals of a student's academic standing.