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Excel Project
Hi, Class
Here are the criteria for the Excel Projects. Students
who successfully complete the Excel Project will be able to...
- select meaningful criteria with which to construct a
rubric for evaluating good websites
- evaluate websites using a rubric
- select at least five good websites which will be useful in
developing the course webfolio
- write a meaningful narrative review of at least five
websites...based on a given set of criteria (and rubric)
- manipulate the format and alignment of cells in a
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
- insert graphics, hyperlinks, formulas, and wrapped text
into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
General Description of Project
In this project, you will use Microsoft Excel on which to
construct a summary of the value of at least five websites that
you will use in developing your semester project. The
first thing you will do is construct a rubric with which to
evaluate websites. The rubric is extremely important, and
you need to spend quality time thinking about the criteria that
will make a site valuable to your course webfolio...that will
help achieve your project goals. Once you have constructed
the rubric, you will need some time to think about key words
that you can use in searching for useful sites. Your
project goals should offer some ideas. Remember that good
searches begin before the fingers touch the keyboard...so spend
some time brainstorming before you begin searching. Once you
have critical key words identified, you can use your Internet
searching skills in conjunction with your rubric to select five
useful websites with substantial content on which to build your
webfolio. Try to select websites that will be good
starting points for research related to your project goals and
that offer authoritative information. Once you have
identified at least five websites that you will use in building
your course webfolio, you will review the websites, writing a
one-paragraph narrative about the site. At this point, you
will begin to insert and/or link elements into an Excel
spreadsheet. Using numbers to represent the quality of
specific criteria on the rubric, you will insert formulas to
calculate sums and averages for each of the sites. Finally you
will work on the Excel spreadsheet to create an appealing
appearance.
About Rubrics and Good
Websites...
As you begin this project, take a few minutes to explore the
meaning and value of rubrics for you the teacher and for your
students.
Then give some thought about the critical elements of a
website...what makes one better than another. Hopefully,
thinking about what makes websites in general will help you
develop a good rubric for evaluating websites that meet not only
general criteria for "good websites" but also specific
criteria for "good websites useful to your course webfolio
goals/objectives".
Specific Criteria
- You will need to have the webpage that contains the table
of goals / objectives for your course webfolio.
- Select/Modify/Construct a "rubric" to evaluate
each web site. Be sure that your rubric is linked to
the Excel document.
- The rubric must be in the form of a table/matrix [it
must contain a horizontal list of elements that are
essential to website and a vertical list of numbers that
differentiate the quality of the elements].
See
example_1 or
example_2
. Example 2 is for reference only.
- The numbers on the rubric must be explained (in other
words, each box in the table will specify how points
will be given).
Another
example.
- The Excel document must calculate (using Excel formulas)
the sums and average scores in order to determine which
website is best according to the established criteria
- Websites should be hyperlinked to the WWW
- Each website should be represented by a logo (collected
from the site)
- Each website row should contain a review column with
individual cells which either contain hyperlinks to a
specific review on a webpage on which all the reviews appear
or contains the entire paragraph review.
- Here's an example of an Excel project with links to a
webpage...click
here (IMPORTANT NOTE: When you click on
this example, if little boxes asking for passwords
popup, just click on cancel. Also, pay attention
to the bottom of your computer screen as the sample
project may appear behind the window open in front of
you. If you see a flashing element at the bottom
of your screen, that's probably the sample Excel
Project. Just click on it to view it.)
- Here's an example of an Excel project with the review
contained within the cells...click
here. (Refer to IMPORTANT NOTE above.)
You can really dress up your Excel document with...colored
grids....graphics....tilted cells...all sorts of stuff...the SKY
is the limit!!
Have fun!!
How will you be graded on this project? Take a look ...
click
here.
Mrs. K
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