Computer Applications Week 11 Excel, Word, and Internet Research

Assignment List Excel Formatting- Making a Presentation Student Survey Questions –Making your own survey Creating A Calendar (Unit Project) Student Survey Spreadsheet Student Survey Presentation

More Excel Formatting Today you will make a presentation that summarizes the ways of formatting cells in Excel Template for presentation is on desktop Quick Demonstration of Excel

Excel Formatting Cells Quiz

More Excel Formatting pt.2

Sorting Tool You know that Excel can store more information than a human. Did you know that it can sort through that information quickly and accurately?

Sorting Tool Select cells to sort first DATA>SORT Dialog choose which column to sort by Ascending vs. Descending

Sorting Practice Open the file CA Excel Sorting Practice Use the sort tools to answer the questions

Day 2 What is Excel really good at? –Storing Lots of Data –Making Beautiful (and Meaningful) Charts –Making Calculations –Sorting Lots of Data –Making it all look so good!

What are people really good at? Learning Thinking Investigating Interpreting Collecting

Student Survey You will be conducting a survey of the students in this class. Work in groups of 3 –Excel Specialist –Powerpoint Specialist –Word Specialist

Survey- What is your goal? Your group should agree about what the goal of your survey should be: –To help market a product? –To advise parents about the inner workings of teenagers? –To advise the school about the opinions of the student body? What do you want to accomplish with the survey? Avoid overly personal topics.

What will the survey look like? Typed in Word- Formatted to Look Good 10 Multiple Choice Questions 5 Choices for each question Each Question should have only one answer for each person “Deep” or “Important” Questions preferable –NO “what is your favorite color?”

Sample Question Q.How much time do you spend on homework each night? A.0 minutes B.30 minutes or less C.Between 30 minutes and 1 hour D.Between 1 hour and 2 hours E.More than 2 hours

Agenda Get into groups- remember the 3 jobs Turn in paper with names, jobs and the purpose of your survey (15-20 minutes) Type your Questions in Word –Make the 10 questions –Rough Draft- Do not worry about color, etc. –Put names and jobs of your group members Print Questions by the end of the period today!

Day 3

Creating A Calendar

Student Survey Spreadsheet

Student Survey Presentation