Course Title: Microsoft Excel 2003 in the Classroom
Hours required: 24
Price: $99
Length course offered: 6 Weeks
Instructor: Robin Sellers [Bio]
Description:
Taught by a 10-year veteran of both the classroom and the school computer lab, Microsoft Excel 2003 in the Classroom is a unique online workshop packed full of tips, shortcuts, and lesson plan ideas just for teachers who want to bring the power of Excel into their classrooms, both as an organizational tool and as a teaching aid.
You'll learn all the important Excel basics: Using the toolbars, formatting cells and worksheets, inserting formulas for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and creating colorful charts and graphs. Then you'll move on to some more advanced Excel features: Sorting and analyzing student test data, writing powerful mathematical formulas, and using the Function Wizard to automatically calculate student averages and other statistics. You'll finish up the course by creating a fully customizable grade book that you use in your own classroom.
Throughout the course, you'll explore standards-based lesson plans and activities that will allow you to pass your Excel knowledge on to your students, no matter what grade level you teach. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid understanding of the basic functions of Excel, and a wealth of ideas for integrating this powerful technology into your lesson plans across your curriculum.
Goals:
By the end of this course, you'll have a solid understanding of the basic functions of Excel, and a wealth of ideas for integrating Excel technology into lesson plans across your curriculum.
Grading System:
Confirmation of Completion awarded with passing score.
School Description:
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Instructor Bio: Robin Sellers
Robin Sellers is a certified teacher with a Master of Arts degree with a concentration in Technical and Professional Communication. She has over eleven years experience in the traditional classroom and has been an online instructor since 2000 where she has trained thousands of students. She has the ability to take difficult or technical concepts and make them easy to understand for her students. Her students claim that she has a gift for communicating online in a clear, concise, and personal way and that she is a 'born' teacher who makes her courses interesting and enjoyable.
