ECI 304 - Educational Applications of Computers: Agenda for February 8 and 9

Open Lab

• Ask Questions
• Show Work
• Turn in

Starting PowerPoint

Creating a simple presentation using PowerPoint

• The Basic Slide Show

Technologies of Interest (if time)

• Acrobat
  • Adobe Acrobat Site
• Electronic Paper
  • Xerox PARC and Electronic Reusable Paper
• HyperText
  • Vannevar Bush and As We May Think
  • The Electronic Labyrinth
• HyperMedia
  • Louvre Museum
  • Macromedia Flash Video Examples (probably won't work in ODU labs due to need of Flash 7 player)

Break

Introducting Spreadsheets

• Mail Merge
• Magic Cube
• Lemonade

Advanced Spreadsheets

Resource

• Internet4Teachers

More advanced gradebooks using worksheets

• Letter Grades (scroll down to "Using a Lookup Table")
• Charts and Graphs

Spreadsheets in the Curriculum

• Find at least one use of a spreadsheet for your content area

Databases

Would you all still respect me if I admitted being new at MS Access? I use a different database brand, and will be learning along with you.

Assignments due next week

Tasks

• Project 4 Activities 1 and 2

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