Multimedia Project: How to Use TeamViewer brought to you by Screenr

Here we go. Explanation of TeamViewer shown using Screenr. Both of these tools are really neat and pretty simple to use. In an earlier post you can visit my description of TeamViewer if you want to know a little more about what I think of it and its uses but overall I think it could be a great tool for helping someone who is having technological issues or someone who needs more direct step-by-step assistance but is unable to be in physical proximity to you. I split the post into 2 parts because I went through the process of actually downloading the program while on Screenr and had to exit to be able to finish the download process, on the second video I picked up where I left off and showed how extremely easy it was to get this program and access it immediately!

This was also my first experience with Screenr and it is really awesome. It is an easy way to screen share basically and signing up for an account, recording, and saving my videos was SUPER EASY! Sometimes I get worried that programs like this will get too complicated and I will just give up on using them because I dont want to have to take the time to figure it out but I had no worries with this program. I think it literally took me 2 minutes to get started recording my first video with an account and all of my "screencasts" saved. These are both great tools and very user friendly!

To go directly to the Screencasts click on How to use Teamviewer and TeamViewer Part 2.

Analyzing Student Data in a Spreadsheet

So, Google Sheets. A lot like Excel and pretty cool to use. Our task here was to take a bunch of raw test score data, find out the total class average for tests 6-10, take out all of the student data that was above that average and then create a graph that shows these students information. The first step I took was to get rid of the information that I didn't need, the information from tests 1-5, and compute averages for each individuals test scores and a class average. That information can be viewed in Sheet 1. Next, I highlighted all of the names and data and used the Data tab to sort the information by the average test score so I could easily identify the individual averages that were above the class average. This can be seen on Sheet 2. Finally, on Sheet 3 I created a chart that shows the students change in the format of a line graph. What this graph shows us in a visual representation is that, most of the students test scores steadily inclined the more tests they took. There a few exceptions where students scores improved and declined seemingly at random. This could be explained by a multitude of things such as a students increased interest in a particular topic resulting in a higher score on the test or the student has personal things going on that affect their ability to focus on a test and their scores drop lower than normal. Yet, despite these exceptions, by Test 10 each of the students individual scores were higher than they were at Test 6. Also, by Test 10 the majority of the students scores were above the original class average of 192.

 I can see this being a useful tool to use when Student Teaching to chart student progress and to use for our Teacher Research project to analyze and visually represent student change. Its also fun to make the data and graphs pretty colors!! :)

Here is the link to my Google Data Sheet in case you want to take a peek at that too.