Prioritize & Organize with Spreadsheets

Effective time management and prioritization skills are essential to your personal, academic, and professional success. So, let’s learn how to create a priority log with a spreadsheet! Both an organizational and prioritization tool, this practical spreadsheet application will help you better manage your time when tackling projects, papers, tasks, and other deadlines. Continue reading “Prioritize & Organize with Spreadsheets”

How to Create an Online Game in 5 steps

Did you know you can create an interactive online Tic Tac Toe game in 5 steps? Google spreadsheets makes this possible! Two beautiful features of a Google spreadsheet are 1) it is online-based, so anyone with an Internet connection can play; and 2) Google spreadsheets are free!  To access it, view our post: spreadsheetsolving.com/access Continue reading “How to Create an Online Game in 5 steps”

Should schools adopt B.Y.O.T?

A new trend across schools has emerged:  B.Y.O.T for Bring Your Own Technology.   Recently, an article in the New York Times describes the debate of whether schools should adopt B.Y.O.T.   Are you a fan or a critic of B.Y.O.T?  Do the advantages of adopting this policy outweigh the drawbacks, or do they not?  How can we think about this?  Before you answer our poll, let’s first discover how we can use a spreadsheet to develop a logical framework to better inform our opinion!

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Employment Patterns by Gender since 1948

In honor of Women’s History Month in March, check out our poll below:  what percentage of the work force consisted of women in 1948?  Keep in mind that just 28 years prior to 1948, women were first granted the right to vote.   How have employment patterns by gender changed over time?  Let’s use our spreadsheet problem solving skills to figure this out!

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