The Beauty of Excel

Excel is a program that epitomizes the capabilities of technology. It takes everyday projects that we have been doing by hand for centuries and simplifies them, giving them a new flare and new range of capacity. That's the gift that technology brings to our lives--a new perspective that enhances the way we look at life. So using Excel in your classroom offers a hands-on opportunity for your students to manipulate technology to their own personal benefit and comfort. The use of this program acts as a springboard to further inquiries made by the students of the potential that technology offers. From here, they glean ideas and perspectives that will effect later technical exploration.

The presentation of Excel offered in class seemed to be effective. I left class that day feeling like I had secured a new piece of information that was going to be useful to me in projects I would be completing even that night. My retention and intruige of the subject is proof that the use of Excel in the classroom could be very successful.