IT for Education

Over the last few posts I've discussed a couple of the most important MS Office applications from an education perspective. PowerPoint and Word are two dominant weapons in my preppin' holster and I rely on them daily. Of course Office is much more than two pieces of software, so I thought I'd go through some of them briefly here. Excel When it comes to spreadsheets, Excel is the undisputed market leader. It's got the users of course ( Office 2010 broke the billion user mark  some time ago), but it's also known as a powerhouse of software used by nearly every market sector. That includes a whole lot of using it for the wrong purpose (which seems to be a trend with the whole suite), most classically as a database when Access is readily available (I'm guilty of this myself). I use Excel to track students' attendance and performance, budget for orders and other administrative tasks. I've never used it in teaching and unless I start teaching accounta...