The Excel graph then becomes one of the slides of a PowerPoint presentation that accompanies an oral presentation to the class and selected visitors on "presentation day." While I don't have the students do anything with Word for this particular project, you could certainly include a Word component by having them create a final report, doing some background research to support their project and writing about it with a bibliography, or by having them create documents such as data tally sheets to help them as they do their research. They create a simple graph in Excel displaying the results of the research. I have my adult Intermediate Level ESL students complete a short "research project" in which they collect data about a topic they have chosen.
I will hunt them dow and send them along. Lane's Computer Applications - Web 2.0 Blog but apparently I took it down so I could make some revisons for next year. I thought I had left the specifics on Mr. PowerPoint - visual representation of the Word essay (can then be uploaded to SlideShare & embedded into blog/wiki) Word - used to type written report also use create outline for the PP (outline was exported to PP once approved so that the emphasis was on content) Here is how I put it all together:Įxcel - used as a timesheet to record on daily basis what was done and how much time was spent on that activity spreadsheet needed to have cells converted to time and at least one formula totaling the time spent on the project It was an "introduce yourself" type assignment but I figure you could reconfigure it to be a "what happened this school year" type activity. Earlier in the year I had students use all three in one larger project.