Excel for Teachers!!!

I viewed a couple of different activities on Microsoft Excel for Teachers: (http://www.mediaworkshop.org/humanities/workshop01/excel_partone.html) It was neat to see how helpful Excel can be for teachers. I took a computer class my junior year of high school and I learned all about Excel, so it is definitely not new to me; although I have not used it since that class in high school. Mainly, it was only used for budgeting purposes. Last week in our technology class here at ABC, we had the chance to use the Excel program as if we were entering in grades for our students. Excel really makes it easy for teachers to enter grades, averages, means, and modes. I love how you can enter the average in one cell and then drag the mouse and the rest of the averages appear. It save so much time, and as teachers, you don't always have all of the time that you would like to have. The other activity I viewed had basically the same concept. If you enter into one cell a day, like Monday, you are able to click and drag the mouse from the corner of the cell and the rest of the days appear in order across the page. It really does save lots of time! You don't have to type out every single letter by hand. Excel is a great program and very helpful, especially for teachers!