Excellent Ways to Use Spreadsheets

Leslie Cash & Lee HallTechnology Resource Teachers

Shelby County Schools

Common Beliefs:

• Spreadsheets are hard to understand.

• Creating graphs in Excel is extremely difficult.

• Only “math-people” use spreadsheets.

One-touch Graphing

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Interactive Maps

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MadLibs

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Timeline

Thanks to:

Barry WigintonTechnology in Motion Specialist

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BatchGeo

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http://batchgeo.com/

Tips & Tricks

• Continuing a series• Two lines instead of one• Fractions• Pictographs• Copy to another book• Formatting multiple sheets at one

time

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Questions?Find the presentations:

http://podcasts.shelbyed.k12.al.us/techtreats/

Questions?Leslie Cashlcash@shelbyed.k12.al.us

Lee Halllhall@shelbyed.k12.al.us