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I’m sure that we all know about the dreaded FCAT that we continuously and painfully went through from Elementary all the way up to high school. However, as much as we hated the test, it has given us plenty of information on students. These tests shows us how we have improved over the years and have helped us decide on what level classes we need to be taking. While, every system has their flaws, the site on the FCAT that I had found shows plenty of research and statistics on all of the Florida students. The website has an area where all of the FAQ are asked and even has up feedback (both negative and positive) on their site.

              The whole site seems to be very beneficial to say the least. I like how it shows Florida’s improvement in education and I also like how informative the site is. I always thought it would be a large process to obtain any of this information. It is nice to know that all the information anybody may need to know on the FCAT is right before your eyes, with only a few clicks. Even if you’re somebody that doesn’t believe in what the FCAT does for students, this site still shows plenty of statistics that may be able to sway your decision otherwise. The information is great and a good way to show our students improvements!

Emma Heinlen: SlideShow

Emma Heinlen: Websites Providing Test Data from National, State, and Local Educational Resources

There are multiple choices to compare various demographics in the U.S. The first link views the different state profiles for education. It is able to compare the various states to the U.S. by number of schools, students, revenue, types of institutions, gender demographics, libraries, and reading and math scores for 4th and 8th grade. The second link is the NAEP state comparisons for race, gender, percentiles (75th and 25th), and school lunch eligibility. There are also options for either 4th or 8th grade and compares each state to each other and the U.S. national average.

The School district mapping and demographic data link (3rd ) allows comparison between different schools in a district in any state in the country. There are many options for comparison and although many of the districts need much zooming in to see individual school statistics. The final is the Census 2000 school district profiles. This requires a comparison of two separate school districts and shows information of sex and age, total household members, education level, tenure statistics, etc. Overall these sources seem very valuable and the comparisons to other counties seem to add another level of understanding to where a district stands. Although the information may be a little confusing to understand, with further analysis the ideas of where one county needs to improve could be very important.

http://nces.ed.gov/datatools/index.asp?DataToolSectionID=5

Amanda Lange: Slideshow

Amanda Lange : Websites Providing Test Data from National, State, and Local Educational Resources

Websites Providing Test Data from National, State, and Local Educational Resources

This website originates from the Harvard college library and has a large variety of different websites all relating to providing test data from national, state, and local education resources. What is useful about this website is that it contains data for the United States as well as International resources and with each source given, there is a few sentences of detail of what the sources will be about. These website sources range from “providing data relating to faculty salaries, enrollment, student activities, etc” to search engines in which data can be searched for alphabetically (“FedStats”). This website is overall a great and very helpful resource that includes a variety of different resources pertaining specifically to topics relating to providing test data from national state and local education.

http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/education/index.html

Amanda Lange: Excel Worksheet

Amanda Lange: Two Websites Providing Tutorials for Using Word, PowerPoint and Excel in K-12 Classrooms.

1) http://www.internet4classrooms.com/k12links.htm

Very organized and helpful website. Offers links for K-12 on various subjects and contains tutorials that are easy to follow for both Excel and Powerpoint.

2) http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/RMC/tutorials/office.html

Provides many links to specific kinds of tutorials for using Powerpoint and Word in the classroom for K-12 in a very organized way, and has many different types of links including using these programs on other computers such as Macs.

Emma Heinlen- Excel Worksheet

Emma Heinlen: Two Websites Providing Tutorials for Using Word, PowerPoint and Excel in K-12 Classrooms.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/FX100648951033.aspx

This is a specific section of the Microsoft Office tutorials focusing on powerpoints. Although it may not be specific for k-12 classrooms, the tutorials themselves are very useful. There is also a template specifically for ‘Teachers Curriculum Night’ so it is apparent that they are concerned about the teachers’ ability to properly include technology in the classroom.

http://www.teacherclick.com/excel2003/index.htm

This is an Excel tutorial that includes screen caps of each step needed. It is designed for use for teachers and seems very helpful and in depth. There are also different tutorials on the website, although I only looked at the excel one. I would recommend this to a teacher who needs to understand the basics, or even the complicated parts of Excel.

Examples of Websites Providing Tutorials for Using Word

Examples of Websites Providing Tutorials for Using Word, PowerPoint and Excel in K-12 Classrooms

 

• Internet4Classrooms                  http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line2.htm

This site is not only good for Powerpoint and Word, but it also has many other programs to choose from. It gives plenty of resources on where to find more information on them. They also give very good examples on this site.

• Micorsoft Office Tutorials and Resources http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/RMC/tutorials/office.html

I liked this site because, like the other it gave good examples. It also gave plenty more links on templates for certain designs and ideas you may want to use.