Excel

Want to keep a list or a collection of information organized in some way? Want to make a mialing list that you send email to? Want to analyze data from standardized test scores(who doesn't?) then Excel might be the tool for you. It is by far the best tool out there for organizing indexing and getting at data and numbers. Its not just a tool for budgeting or calculations either. It can be used to keep data organized as good as most database programs. It can even be used to make your own gradebook away from Making the Grade.

Here's some educational uses and training for [|Microsoft Excel]:
 * [|Really comprehensive list of lessons and some examples at Internet4classrooms.com]
 * Using Excel to analyze classroom data
 * [|Lt tech spreadsheet resources]
 * [|Classrooms that "Excel"] (get it...)
 * [|Atomic Learning]
 * **[|http://ubmail.ubalt.edu/~harsham/stat-data/opre330.htm]** [|http://ubmail.ubalt.edu/~harsham/stat-data/opre330.htm]
 * [|http://www.csun.edu/~vceed002/BFI/lessons/spreadsheets.html]
 * http://www.doctorgus.net/spreadsheet.htm - Guide to setting up project.
 * http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/lessons/spread.bar.html - lessons using spreadsheets. Scroll down to the grade levels (4th-12th)
 * http://www.successlink.org/great/g766.html
 * http://k12science.ati.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/genproj/- Classes using this project collect information concerning dominant and recessive traits. These can then be entered into Excel as as a database, graphed and interpreted.
 * http://www.successlink.org/great/g791.html
 * http://www.microsoft.com/education/mctn/?ID=solving - To aid students in graphically visualizing polynomial equations, beginning with cubic equations, to model for students how Excel spreadsheets can be used as problem-solving tools, and to introduce students to advanced Excel spreadsheet functions.
 * http://www.microsoft.com/education/mctn/?ID=buylowThis lesson will teach students how to invest in corporate stocks by creating investment 'portfolios.' Step-by-step instructions will enable students to develop worksheets that track their portfolio's performance over a specified time period and report the results to the class.
 * http://www.microsoft.com/education/mctn/?ID=campaign - This simulation activity asks students to work as staffers for a politician (played by you). They are assigned to design, administer, and analyze a simple poll on an important community issue; to develop a position statement based on poll results; and to persuasively present the candidate's stand on the issue.
 * [|http://cecasun.utc.edu/~tpa/mcallister/students/su98e575kayemcclanahan.html#one]
 * [|http://cecasun.utc.edu/~tpa/mcallister/students/su98brenda.html#one]
 * [|http://renoir.vill.edu/~ysp/Teacher/Webpages/VILL_WEB_REPORT/Abstract.html]