my studenst are asleep

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I assume you are teaching a Basic Excel Class and your students are losing
interest. I suggest you take a few moments out and show them some completed
programs with impressive macros and what can be done eventually if one knows
how to really use Excel...........perhaps that will spark their interest.
Just putting data and basic formulas into cells IS pretty boring.

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3
 
I assume you are teaching a Basic Excel Class and your students are losing
interest.  I suggest you take a few moments out and show them some completed
programs with impressive macros and what can be done eventually if one knows
how to really use Excel...........perhaps that will spark their interest.
Just putting data and basic formulas into cells IS pretty boring.

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3
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It sounds like Vaya is right. The best way to teach also depends on
what you are obliged to teach, and what the students need from the
course. I have been teaching Excel skills to a group of second chance
students in a polytechinc, who are hoping to become science
technicians or engineers. In previous years the Excel (and Word)
teaching was done by the Business Studies staff and the students
failed to see the relevance of it all because the course had a
commercial office setting. Sleeping or absenteeism was the norm.
When we wrote our own course, everything was in the context of
something of use or interest to scientists or engineers. No doubt the
BusStud tutors would be scandalized at how informal our try-it-and-see
apporach was, but everybody came and nobody slept (usually anyway).

If you have students with a similar background and a reasonable say in
what and how you teach, and you want some ideas, then email me
personally with an idea of the sort of stuff you think would be
useful.

xt
 
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