Creative Classroom Uses for Microsoft Excel
Excel Tutorials
The Education World staff has created a selection of tutorials demonstrating innovative uses of Excel 2003, including: seating charts, interactive maps, timelines, interactive crossword puzzles, and self-correcting worksheets.
Microsoft Excel Interactive Projects
The Center for Technology and Teacher Education provides downloadable Excel files and lessons for interactive secondary school projects, including fraction pie, projectile motion, and ratio.
Create a Timeline Using Microsoft Excel
Microsoft’s Education site provides step-by-step instructions for creating various styles of timelines with Excel 2000 and above.
Microsoft Excel Games (Excel 2002 and above)
The Watson School of Education provides downloadable interactive Excel files such as Bingo and self-checking Excel spreadsheets.
Tech Tip – Excel 2003 Speak Text Feature
Microsoft Excel 2003 has a built-in feature to speak aloud the text and numbers in selected cells of a spreadsheet. This is helpful for with special needs students and non-readers. Text is highlighted as it is spoken, so students have a visual cue.
To activate the text-to-speech feature:
1. Select a range of cells in an Excel spreadsheet.
2. From the Tools menu, select Speech and then Show Text To Speech Toolbar.
3. Click the leftmost icon on the toolbar, Speak Cells, or click Speak On Enter (the rightmost icon) to listen upon selecting the cell.
You can choose to have the program read vertically by column, or horizontally by rows.
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posted by Karen Franker, Editor @ 2/15/2008 11:44:00 AM
