Reflection on the usage of the excel spreadsheets

Teaching and learning became much easier and effective with the access to Information Technology and it became an inseparable part of it. I was left doubted over the decades during that primary to middle secondary days how can a teacher produce results of forty students. I didn’t have the slightest idea of the Microsoft Excel sheet. However, teachers are masters to students and students assume the teacher knows everything from bit to the whole. I thought the teacher can do everything well.

My idea of ICT was just to have videos played and in addition few said we can also play games on it, nothing more than that. But my thinking on ICT remained in the box, was limited and lagged far more behind than what actually it does. Taking through the lined of computers in the lab in the first year on the FIT module, I was amazed by the information of its features and functions. Among many, I learned and loved the computer application called spreadsheet (excel).

The spreadsheet is an electronic document in which data is arranged in the rows and columns of a grid and can be manipulated and used in calculations. I was left in dilemma frequently during my school days, how much time is consumed to prepare academic result for the students by a single class teacher? But then in reality it was not, a thousand of copies can be produced within a few minutes time using this application. Mistakes in a spreadsheet can be corrected by entering a new number or text into that cell of your spreadsheet. Within one spreadsheet numerous can be done with the right formula entered.

In the process of learning, I found that it is easier to create the activities, such as, creating graphs or tables and many more effectively and efficiently by using excel spreadsheets.

Moreover, it saves time and effort of us. This idea of using spreadsheet excel helped me in teaching practice a lot. The tasks related to marking are all done with the use of this. So, as of many I profoundly learned about the spreadsheet and attached pictures below are my work of it during my college days.

Sample of my work(result);

1. https://www.scribd.com/document/407984562/Excell-on-Fit?secret_password=XAKY9k4cOvJswlXICyDD
2. https://www.scribd.com/document/407984564/Fit-Excell?secret_password=ZI0FglafpAb3wInTJCqm

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