Now that we've mastered entering data into a spreadsheet and executing basic formulas and functions, it was time to make our spreadsheets look good. Google Spreadsheets is severely limited in the ways we can format our data and spreadsheets, but we were able to do enough to make some good-looking tables. If you want to see some incredible formatting, do a quick search for "Excel Art" in Google. Amazing!
We also learned to sort our data. Reordering the data might not seem like a big deal until you've spent thirty minutes entering data only to find out it was supposed to be in alphabetical order! As long as the students remembered to highlight all their data, sorting was an easy task. Some of the assignments today built on the assignments from last class, so those who are caught up got a little break from the data-entry side of spreadsheets.
We also learned to sort our data. Reordering the data might not seem like a big deal until you've spent thirty minutes entering data only to find out it was supposed to be in alphabetical order! As long as the students remembered to highlight all their data, sorting was an easy task. Some of the assignments today built on the assignments from last class, so those who are caught up got a little break from the data-entry side of spreadsheets.