Video Teaching Mini Lesson

Here is a Link to a video I made using my laptop to record a lesson.  I took the opportunity to show my wife how to use Google Docs, specifically gearing the lesson towards use for the school newspaper.  We sat down at our own computers and walked through set up and the different options.  I used my computer's built-in web cam and speaker to record and here is how it came out:

It was a lot of fun to

Analyzing Student Data in a Spreadsheet

This weeks task was to analyze class data using Google Spreadsheet, as the title suggested.  We were given imaginary test scores and students to go through and organize into a graph.  Here is a Link to my work.



In the Graph, the blue bars represent the average scores of the class and the lines are the student's own scores.  Looking at the data on the graph, the encouraging thing that I see is the lines are going up at the end, which is to say the students are improving.  Also, most of them improved above the overall average for the class.  Only one student's final test was lower than before.  So it would appear that learning is happening.