Internet research and Excel

The Web is full of so much useful information and through Internet search engines we can view this info. Felt and Syman explained this, as obvious as it seems to many of us, yet it is important to be reminded of the proper usage of the Internet as an educational tool. Finding credibility in Internet sources is fairly easy to recognize today, but students unfamiliar with the Internet still need to learn how to find info and learn what is and isn't credible. Like many students, I usually use the Internet as my primary source of information when doing research, especially the online article databases provided by our library. Not that I'm lazy, but it's so much more quicker and provides an abundance of information.

With excel spreadsheets, students and teachers can organize and present information with professional precision. It helps, of course, to learn the tricks of the program, but even the simple entries of numbers and converting to graphs is simple and beneficial enough to teach in a day or two. After taking the excel quiz (score: 5/9), I realized I should have reviewed the terms. I will definitely use Excel as an educator and as a prospective Math teacher, expect students to learn this program as well.