How much do you appreciate the things you have ?

Today in class many of my questions were answered. Questions like why can't i buy lunch every day, or go to the mall with my friends every week and buy things? I would get upset at my parents for not letting me go to the mall as often as i would or buy expensive things. Now i know the reason behind their disapproval, and honestly appreciate their answers now that I'm familiar with how hard it is for them to earn money and support the family. Today, we got familiar with all the basic expenses our parents have to pay for each month, by making a spreadsheet with our expenses and income per month. Income is much less than the expenses, and to make matters worse, every month the government takes a certain percentage of your money so that they can support the poor, and also have money to do things like build roads, schools, houses and more. Depending on the amount of money you make per month, the government takes away some of it. And the more you earn, the more the government will take away from you. Trying to figure out how to run the family budget and keep food on the table is very difficult, but fortunately we can use excel to try figuring out what expenses are best for the family. You can use excel to see what things are needed and what things can wait for a while. Although its difficult work, i appreciate the things my parents do to keep me happy. So the next time i want to ask them for something, ill think twice about it, now that i know how hard it is to keep the family going.

TizAllForNow !.


Peggy .

Testttt . !

Today in class we spent some time just reviewing what kinds of things are going to be on our test on Wednesday. We also had to hand in our December calendars. Here are just some things that might be on the test on Wednesday.

You need to know everything Mr.Case has taught us about excel.

Like how to merge cells
how to add text
how to do math with excel
when your making a calendar, how you can write things in each box
what print preview does
How to find the sum, average, maximum, minimum, count etc.
and so much more. . .

So dont forget to study !

-Peggy

Excel makes your life easier!

Excel is a great program to use if your lazy or you just like saving time. For example you want to make a calendar to keep track of everything you do in one month or week or year or anything you want. Its very easy, with excel. You open excel and in the first cell write the days of the week or month/year/season or anything else you want to do. Then under each of them put a date so its easier. make your calendar how ever way you want it. But remember if your going to print your calendar, always check the size before you do. Go to Print Preview and look at the size of the sheet, because it might be more than a page. If you want it to be just one page, once your done with print preview, there will be a line on your calendar showing you where the page is going to end, and that's where you need to keep your page so it doesn't become two pages.
You can also do many other things will excel, these are just basics of it.

Thats about it for now.

Peggy

Life made easy with Excel!

Wonder why they call it exCEL? It’s because excel is a spreadsheet (basically a piece of paper filled with cells that have their own names) you use to do your entire math, and save time. Excel is a great way to calculate your marks, do long tiring calculations in just a blink of an eye. And here's the great part, if you have used excel in the right way, and you make a mistake, you have no worries. The only work you need to do is not worry and just try finding where you made the mistake, fix it and everything else gets fixed, like MAGIC! Impossible right? No way, nothings impossible! All you need to do is follow simple steps. You can do many things like add text, color, different fonts and make the columns and rows as small or as big as you want.
Say you want to find the sum of your entire tests so far. You need to write three pieces of information to help you. You need text string, value and formula. Under text you would write all your subjects. Under value you would write how much each test is out of, and under formula you would write a formula. Let’s say you wrote your one of your subjects in cell B2. (the text string) *If you are unsure where to find the names of the cells, you click on it and at the top of the page on the left hand side, it will say the name. For example: D18.* And you have your test results in columns B3, B4, B5, B6, B7 and B8. (the value) And you want to figure out the total of all your marks. All you need to do is click on the cell you want your total to appear in, write =sum, then open brackets and hold 'CTRL' and click on the numbers you want to add up. It would look something like this: =SUM(B3,B4,B5,B6,B7,B8) This is how you should get your answer. Because if you make a mistake on the way, and you have done your calculations with this formula, you can simply change one number and your answer will automatically change! But if you have written =SUM(B3,B4,B5,B6,B7,B8) on your own without selecting the cells, you are going to have to do that all over again. Especially if there are a lot of cells to find the sum's of.
It’s very easy; you just need to know what you want to figure out. So if it’s an average of something, you click on the cell you want your answer to appear in, write =average, open brackets, select the cells you want, close the brackets and you have your answer! And you didn't need to think at all!

See you soon.

Peggy

Woodbine Weekly !

Want to be the FIRST to know what goes on at Woodbine? Tired of trying to chase around those busy student councils or teachers to try finding out what Woodbine has in store for you next? Well, you don't need to look any further. My group and I have decided to make a weekly podcast on everything that will happen at Woodbine. We can tell you things that no one else knows, so you'll be ahead of the school and get no surprises. Check out our wiki page for the weekly podcast starting Friday November 21!

Hope you enjoy it!

Peggy.

What's the news for this week?

Here's our assignment. We have to get into groups of as many people as we want, but try keeping it small because if there are a lot of people then Mr.Case will mark your assignment harder! You and your group have to come up with a topic for a podcast that is interesting, people would actually like to watch it, and something you can update every week or month. Once you've done that, you need to make a page on the wiki about the podcast your going to do so that everyone would be familiar with your podcast and have a general idea of what its about. The goal is to have the best and most popular podcast which will get you really good marks, and also be interesting and original.

We also talked about open and closed sources. An open source is when someone makes a program and you are able to go into the program, with a password or code, and be able to change the context. But with a closed source, you can not mess around with the program. And you cant see how its made. You can visit http://web.sourceforge.com/. It is a good example of an open source, because anyone can go into sourceforge and change stuff around. Usually sourceforge is a reliable site to download programs from because it is open for everyone to see the program, so if there are any viruses on it, others can see it and remove it or fix it.
When you download a program, you need MP3 and compress your files into smaller zip, when saving.

That's about it for now. :)

Peggy.

Want to watch your favorite shows any time?

Today in class we learned about podcasts. A podcast is a brodcasting or episodic a specific topic, and its updated every week or month. A podcast can be about anything. Maybe on someones opinion about their favorite sport, food, TV show and many more. A podcast focuses on one topic and every week or month that it gets updated, it still talks about the same topic but different ideas about it. Podcasts are over the Internet, so you can access them anytime and download them so that you can watch them anytime and as many times as you want. You can download these podcasts through a program called iTunes.
There is also something called a niche market which is based on specific audiences.

Our assignment is to get into groups of 2-3 and use iTunes to find a podcast that your interested in. Make sure it is something that you can talk about continuously and that you can update every week or month.

Peggy.

Halloweennn !

On Wednesday, we had to make a short but interesting PowerPoint presentation. It had to be sort of like a story, a Halloween story! Scary, creepy funny, or which ever way you want it.

We learned how to hyperlink pages to other pages in our presentation. You simply make a short story, put pictures, not too many words, and make arrows, hyperlink the arrows to other slides, so that when you click on them, they will take you to the slide you chose.
Have fun, and try being creative! Oh and it should be 4-5 pages. Not too long!

Peggy.