Posting #4

Jason Gaylord
February 15, 2009
Instructor McCulloch
Posting #4

The spreadsheets reading was a nice simple tutorial on how to use Microsoft Excel. I found it to be helpful and give me some of the necessary answers for beginning my first project in Excel. In particularly, the tutorial showed me the importance of Excel and how it is useful in organizing data and easier than using pen and paper. For example, Excel does all the changes for the user. If data changes, it simply makes the adjustments. In previous experience, I rarely used Excel, but it always has come up as the tool people want used when figuring out data and organizing it. This is because Excel is easy to use, and also because it is neat and organizes data in a manageable way. Further down the road, Excel allows its users to add colors, create charts and graphs. These are things that are very valuable to anybody who works with a large amount of material containing numbers.
On the quiz, I missed three of the ten questions. Though this is a considerable amount when thinking about what kind of grade I would have received had it been a test, I feel confident that the tutorial and the quiz taught me many good skills to get started on my Excel project. Also after reviewing the material, I feel that if I had to take the test again, I would receive a perfect. This week I am excited to utilize the skills I have gained through the short tutorial and the lecture from Instructor McCulloch. I think that the equations like SUM, MULT, DIVD, and SUBT will be crucial to my future as a teacher and organizing grades for my students.
Jason Gaylord
Jason Gaylord