Welcome To My ED 480 Blog!

Hi Everyone, my name is Nora and I am a full time Northern Marianas College Student, pursuing a Bachelor's Degree In Elementary Education. My Blog features all the projects that I will be doing throughout the Fall semester. Be checking back for I will be posting more works of tech.

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Crossword Puzzle


1.Using Excel as a teaching tool can teach children different skills and content subjects. An example of this is we use Excel to create a puzzle, with this children can learn to create a crossword puzzle and also learn some vocabulary words that are from the topic they are learning. They can also use it to create word search puzzles and at the same time be able to know how to spell the words by searching for it. Another activity, is students can create charts and graphs and still learn different math skills like numbers, population, differences, etc. The software will be very useful in the classroom as long as it is used properly and in a meaningful way.

2. It is important that teachers and administration of the school inform parents of what is going on in the classroom and at school so that parents will know that there is some learning that is happening and maybe by looking at what their learning objective are in class, they as parents can be knowledgeable of how they can help their child with their homeworks, studying for tests, and helping them with projects. As dor school news it is important that they know whats going on so they can feel content that they're sending their child/children to a safe school and a good learning environment.

3. Yes, I think this Excel project would be an additional help for students to learn vocabulary words. Because it engages them and makes them think of which word fits to the definition thats given. It is also helpful for them to use Excel so that they can also make one for themselves with other vocabulary words from other content subjects.

4. The thing that I would do differently next time is also incorporate the use of online crossword puzzle makers, it is alot easier and less time consuming. All it needs is for you to add in the words and definitions and ta da! your crossword is created.

No comments: